I had always prayed for a unique story, but wasn’t sure I would really have it. Rick popped in my life unexpectedly and the first time he asked, I turned him down. The 2nd time was different and for lack of better words, he “fairy-taled” me. When he suggested we meet up, he spoke to my heart, telling me the things and people he could see I loved most and how those types of people and things were what mattered most to his life. I knew then that he was special. Our first date told me everything, we spent half of it simply loving a homeless woman and taking time for her. Maybe it’s not the fairytale one would normally think of, but I remember thinking that I could love a man with this kind of heart for people. In my prayers over the years, I’d locked my heart away in what I like to call secrets. These 3 secret prayers I submitted to the Lord asking Him to reveal them to my future spouse. I don’t think I really thought it would happen, but it did! My last secret was a hot air balloon ride that I’d had a vision of about 6 years earlier. I remembered the vision so clearly that I had painted a picture of it and hid it away. It was the day before we were going to go ring shopping when God showed himself faithful to my last secret. We spontaneously went to the cumming fair where there was a hot air balloon ride. I loved it, but what really got me was when I got home and compared the painting to the picture…. They were identical. There’s no way Rick could’ve planned that so perfectly, it really was an act of heaven. Our dating story really is a testimony to the hand of God and we can only pray that as we enter this next season of our lives together, that we live out the testimony of his faithfulness to us.