He Makes Everything Beautiful in His Time

How can we sum up how we met? It all goes back to a long chain of events but to keep it straight to the point, Alicia fell. Like, actually fell off a skateboard while hanging outside with Matthew and a friend. They knew each other from church, particularly each both involved with a ministry. One Saturday afternoon, during a break from all her dance classes, they hung out outside the church and fooled around with a skateboard. When she gave it a try, not even 2 minutes on the board, she fell. Suddenly with her laugh, Matt fell in love-- instantly. There was something about her laugh that captured him. Her smile that made him think, "I want that smile in my life forever". Although she did not pay any mind to it, at first, time moved on and laughs turned into phone numbers (this was when the cell phone was becoming big) and those numbers changed in minutes, days and now years later we are finally here. BTW this is the very short version of the whole story-- so many more details as to how they even knew each other's name but it is too long to write-- just know, Alicia hated Matt at first-- for quite some time. (Ironic right?) Hate turned into love. It took time but it was all worthwhile.

No measure of time can really determine a lesson we learn, right? Do you not know someone who could not learn something the first time? Second time? 100th time? One lesson we have seriously grasped in our time together is love is patient. Love is patient in all of the shortcomings, victories, defeats and everything in between. We have never denied that it was our choice to get together at 16 years of age and stick it out all this time. When you are young and in love, the world seems so small compared to your dreams and ambitions. We quickly realized that dreams are mere visions without action. Growing up together, was hard. We had so much to learn about ourselves in the midst of trying to learn to love and accept each other. There were times where space was needed. Space to focus on what was truly necessary for one another. I mean, God even called Alicia to Valley Forge (whole other story for another time lol), where even though they were still connected, A LOT was learned for the both of them apart. What makes 2019 so different then? Why Now? GOD. He has orchestrated this time, this month, this day for them. And what a day it is going to be!