"Traveling long and far on different paths, we faced the deafening silence, cold embrace, and love with bitterness of a lonely life, searching for a new and better way. When tears like a river attended our way, and sorrows distilled in our soul, we learned to say in Christ's name, "It is well with my soul," yet with much weeping. But the Lord, our Lord, who tossed us to and fro along the ocean of tears, washed us ashore onto the same beach, where our longing eyes first met and found true love at last." Our thanks is given to God who brought us together from different ends of the world, united in Christ with the same purpose and desire in life, and at last satisfying our deep passion for a loving spouse. The Lord made the choice to date and then marry quite obvious when we found no one more intriguing than each other in our local church. We played the game of "hard to get" very seriously to ensure each other's interest was sincere, and fell in love quite easily after that. It all started with a Sunday lunch, then a bowling alley, a romantic Venezuelan tune sung from the heart, then a diamond ring bought by the sacrifice of a daily driver.