Jeak the Geek

I’m Getting Married!!! -Testimony-

Recently I got engaged and I am planning to get married by the end of the summer.

Great News Right??

It is, but…that wasn’t my plan was it.

I thought I was going to get married around 27 when I am well off and maybe ready to have a family.

It seems like God had other plans…

So, here’s the story.

At the end of December, I attended a missions meeting to discuss strategies of reaching Japan.  She was also part of that meeting.  I have heard many testimonies of what she had done in the mission field, but it was the first time meeting her personally.  My first impression of her: beautiful.

However, due to my work schedule I didn’t have much time to spend with her.  But I did manage to connect with her on facebook.  To be honest, she was in the back of my mind, but that was about it.

On January 1^st, I got word that she flew to Cambodia for a 2-3 week mission trip to help out orphanages.  At first she was with her sister, but in the second week she was on her own.  A week or so later, a few of us had a conference call to discuss missions again.  During that call, she explained to us how lonely she was after he sister left.  Even after the meeting, we kept her company.

A few days later on January 12^th, she emailed me saying that she wanted to talk to me via skype.  Since I nothing to do on that day, I agreed to talk to her.  That night we ended up spending about 7 hours talking to each other.  I have never done something like this with a woman I barely know.  It’s hard for me to carry a 7 hour conversation with women I do know.

Well, it was around 1A.M. where I felt an urge to tell this girl that I liked her.

Wait a minute…

This is what I was thinking in my mind.

“I barely know this girl, we just met a few weeks ago, and I told all my friends that I wasn’t going to like a girl until I was ready to marry one.”

But…

It was the first time in my life that I thought that I would regret it if I didn’t say anything. 

So imagine the situation with me.  Its 1 A.M. so I was super tired.  I already feel my mind was playing tricks on me.  And I’m telling myself that I am not ready to get married.

I just like the girl so maybe getting married is thinking too far down the road, but I was panicking.

So I opened my mouth and said, “Ummmm… I want to tell you something… But it might sound a bit weird…. ummmmmmm…. I usually don’t ummmm… do stuff like this… but… ummmmmmm…. ummmmm…..  ummmm…… I like you.  You are my perfect woman.” (I’m pretty sure there were a lot more ummmms and it took me about 5 minutes to say it).

Awkward silence….

A few second later, I realized how foolish I sounded and said, “Nevermind… I think I made a mistake.”

But she replied and said, “I like you too.  What do you want to do?”

After talking it through, we decided to pray about it.

The next day, she emailed me and said she got a word out of the Song of Solomon.

The Song of Solomon?!

Anyways, I read the scripture she sent me.

To my surprise…

It was the lyrics to the song I was listening to all week on repeat.

So we decided that this was of God and decided to date in a sense.  So you can say we officially stated dating on January 13^th, 2011.

So good??  Yeah, good.

But the next day…

I told her that I wanted to marry her and she said, “YES!”

Okay…really good!

The next week, I asked her father I wanted to marry her and he also said, “Yes.”  It seems like he went through the exact same thing when he was my age.  When he was 22 years-old, he also decided to marry a girl that he had only known for a week. 

So praise God he understands…

So it seems like God is opening all the doors for me to get married.  And the crazy thing is I haven’t seen her ever since the missions meeting in December.  I am marrying a girl I have only met 2 or 3 times. 

But…I am in perfect peace!

It’s like God has prepared us both for this moment.  It’s hard to explain it, but it seems like every door that we try to go through, God is opening them wide. 

So where did my plan of getting married when I turn 27 go??

God took it, and gave me better one!

Echo II