The Start Of A New Journey Together



Well now.  Isn't this fun?!?!  I've waited a long time to be able to do a post about this topic and here we are!  I met Danny back in 2009 when I was living with is sister down in Alabama.  He came to visit a few times, and I visited her back at her house in IN a few times and got to know him a little through that.  And Cassie talked about him constantly so even though I didn't personally know him well, I knew a lot about him.  I guess for me, I've been feeling for about a year now that I should be married.  The desire was always there, but recently it's been more of a burden.  And when I say burden, I don't mean that in a bad way.  I just mean I felt in my heart that God was saying it was time.  However, nothing was happening.  This next part I'm purposely going to be vague just for the sake of all involved...  I felt pretty strongly that I was supposed to marry someone and had gone so far as to pursue that.  Since I did feel like I was supposed to be getting married.  I had let that person know how I felt and was waiting for a response when I found out I had a different proposal.  Now, I had never had a proposal before in my life, so the timing of it all blew me away.  I couldn't decide if I thought it was God saying "No, this is what I want for you", or if it was a test of faith, or if it was just a big inconvenience.  At this point, I didn't know who the proposal was from, and for the first couple days after finding out about it, I was not wavering from the original marriage pursuit.  But after almost a week, I felt pretty strongly that I should pray about the proposal.  I was so confused though, and begged God to make things perfectly clear.  I talked with the other person who, for various reasons, told me I should move on.  I was actually really happy to hear that because it took away all the confusion and I was able to confidently move forward without questioning things.  Regardless of what had happened with the other situation, the fact remained that I still felt like I should be married, and without even knowing who the proposal was from, I was pretty sure I was going to say yes.  Thanks to his sister, I suspected it could be Danny, but I wasn't sure.  Obviously, it was:)  When I heard his name it was kind of just a matter of letting it sink in and waiting to see if the peace that had settled in my heart remained.  I did want a little confirmation from God because, you know, it's a pretty big deal to get married and because that's just how I roll.  I was driving home from church on a Wednesday night and the radio preacher (who was someone I had never even heard of before) was talking all about marriage, speaking directly to the women, and was quoting scripture after scripture about marriage.  That was good enough for me and I gave my answer back the next day!

 

 

 

 

For Danny, well, he always thought he would marry someone from his home church, and he for sure never thought he would marry me!  He also had been praying about getting married for about a year (I think...) and one day God spoke very clearly and directly to his heart saying that I was the person he should marry.  Just as I was blindsided by his proposal, he was completely blindsided by that thought.  He spent some time praying about it and then decided to bring it up to Cassie (his sister).  They had never ever talked about me in that way before, which makes me love the conversation they had even more.  Basically, Cassie knew that Danny was praying about marriage and before he even said my name she said something like "You've been thinking about Sarah, haven't you?"  Turns out God had spoken to her about stuff too:)  So, he asked, and that's where my story takes off. 

There is no doubt in my mind that this is completely a work of God!  It was pretty unexpected for both of us, but it's been awesome to move forward knowing that it's so right.  And I'm really excited!!!  So, there you have it.  If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and I can talk about that in another blog post.