The first time our paths crossed was as teenagers, right out of high school, when we attended the same Bible college. During this time, our interaction primarily consisted of sporadic games of foosball, the occasional casual conversation, and tossing the football around. From there we went our separate ways, establishing our individual lives over the next two decades, until that fateful day when our paths would enigmatically intersect once again. The company Jeremy worked for refurbishing floors at the time, had asked him to help out in their custodial department. He filled in vacuuming floors, emptying trash, and detailing the bathrooms of various clinics, offices, and school buildings on the client list. Janelle was plugging away at her desk, finishing up her principal duties at the end of another school day. Out of the corner of her eye she thought she recognized the guy walking into the building with a vacuum cleaner slung over his shoulder. Her suspicions were confirmed when Jeremy arrived wheeling the supply cart into the staff area. He was oblivious, until, with his scrub brush wielding, rubber-gloved hands deep into the bowl of the faculty toilet, he heard a friendly, yet unfamiliar voice call his name. “Jeremy Holm?” Although he had thought his days of being summoned to the principal's office were behind him, he pulled off his gloves and stepped into the hallway. The voice reintroduced herself, “Janelle Mellgren, from Bible school.” When she inadvertently scratched her nose with the back of her hand, this specifically distinctive quirk unlocked twenty-year-old memories in Jeremy’s mind. We both articulated how neither of us really believed in coincidence and that we ought to set up a time to meet intentionally. On a brisk October Sunday we met at a coffee shop, walked along a lake, and shared a bench. We would spend the next seven years getting reacquainted, and figuring out what exactly the meaning behind this chance reencounter could truly be. And now, here we are, two paths initially intersecting in the late 1900’s and coincidently converging in 2017, now merge together in a collaborative journey, sharing joy and pain, sorrow and triumph, grounded on unified gratitude and trust in the proven faithfulness of God.