The phone rings, I say ‘hello’ and after
observing the usual telephone protocols and pleasantries, the next question my
friend asked was ‘are you still single?’ I burst out laughing; typical of
ladies right?! My answer was ‘erm yhh, why do you ask?’, and her response was
‘I have someone for you’, I laughed again, “and Sarah laughed”
So, I said to her, that am not interested
and wasn’t really looking for anyone. You see to be honest, I really wasn’t
looking for anyone, I was enjoying my season of singleness, a season of just
seeking after God and nothing else. She said to me ‘don’t you know you are
getting old?’, have in mind I was only 22years old at that time; in my mind I
thought to myself ‘oh no, you didn’t!’. Anyway, after a long tussle, I finally succumbed
to her match-making powers and said ‘okay fine’; thank God for persistent
friends.
She gave me his name, and straightaway I
went on Facebook to check out who this guy is; oh come of it we all do it, I
just wanted to make sure the person existed (laugh out loud). Apart from
knowing he existed, I also wanted to have a mental image of who this man is;
one peak and Oooooohh yes my baby is fineeeee (laugh out loud – don’t judge
me).
From that day on I kept on praying, it
took Felix about a month before he even called me, I thought maybe he’s not
serious or even ready. After the initial calls and intermittent blackberry
messages, it took him a year before he actually proposed to see me in person,
(yes a year….a full, whole year…hmmmmmm that’s a book on its own.
During the one year period of just
talking, I learnt a lot about God and about myself. I think God was really
testing my patience, because after a few months of talking, I wanted to meet
him already, but he wouldn’t ask me, and I kept silent too (ladies you have to
be lady like and let him do the chasing – but it was hard).
So one year later, here comes the light
after a very long tunnel (laugh out loud), on that faithful Sunday afternoon I
finally saw the man I have been speaking to on the phone, he wasn’t as tall as
I imagined, but a mighty man of God.
So with continuous prayers, we started a
relationship and on June 25th 2013, he proposed and the rest as they say is
history….
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