We are getting married!!!!

I've been praying for my future wife for the last 3 years my folks. Fast forward to June 30, 2020, when I was coaxed by a friend to go to a summer bonfire event. I almost didn't go b/c it was 45 min away, but decided to join. I later found out it was a singles event, which was a nice surprise as a certain red head had caught my eye. When we got there Kirstin was playing guitar and singing, leading worship for the group. I took a mental note of her and then wondered how I was going to approach her as I've never really asked a Christian girl out before. There seemed to be some weird code I hadn't cracked yet, and I was a little intimidated to be honest. I was finally able to approach her. We had a brief conversation which ended with me putting my name on her email list in case she needed a bass player for future events. The conversation was cut short by her event hosting duties. Meanwhile, I was mingling others there and had heard someone in the crowd made no surgar/low carb cookies. I'm always looking for food I can eat and manage my health. We did met and discuss the cookie recipe, which is an important part of our story you'll see later on. I was never able to connect with Kirstin but I wasn't satisfied with the small interaction we had. Soo I made my friend wait in the car with me as I looked for her one last time. I saw her from a distance and tried to engage in conversation but she was busy. I knew if I didn't make a connection I probably wouldn't ever see her again. I noticed to my right the cookie girl was still there with a handful of people. So in a final attempt, I approached her for her cookie recipe. I told her to send the cookie recipe to Kirstin b/c I had put my name on her list and she had my contact info. I had to reiterate this point b/c I didn't want her to forget, I had a lot riding on her remembering to send the recipe. Two weeks later I got the text I wanted, it was the cookie recipe from the red head. We've been talking everyday since.

I HATED dating. I hated everything about it and I especially hated that we had become a society that did everything online and had forgotten the art of face-to-face interaction. Sooo, I had told God that I wanted to met a guy in person or not at all. Since no one had ever asked me out in person before I had resolved that it would be the "not at all" portion of the prayer I would end up with. I had basically given up that the marriage thing would ever happen to me but if it did I wanted my love story to NOT start with "we met on eHarmony" or any other online platform. I had some hard seasons with the thought of dying alone but I had gotten to a place where I was ok being single and that I was just going to be the girl that did singles events to help others connect. So I started and lead a singles ministry for three years. In 2020 we had to shift things to be completely online like everyone else so from March - June we held weekly zoom meetings for bible study and various discussions on singleness/love etc. The June 30th event was the grand final and the first time all of us got to meet in person. We did a bonfire and I lead some worship on my guitar. The event was going great. There seemed to be several people interested in being on the mailing list and I was even able to connect with a potential bass player! This was exciting. It was a good group and there seemed to be a lot connection which was the goal. There seemed to be multiple girls interested in this Chris guy and they kept asking me about him, he was a hot commodity (it must have been his first time at one of our events is what I thought, fresh meat lol). After the event, I had holiday/birthday/events planned so I ended up doing my event follow up later then I wanted. At some point within the next two weeks I got an interesting text from my friend saying that a guy wanted her cookie recipe and I needed to send it to him. I thought it was weird but I sent it to him. He hasn't stopped texting me since.