The story of Tim and Johanna does not begin when they met, but several months prior at the beginning of 2018. At that time, Johanna was on the Pacific coast reading Scary Close by Donald Miller. Relating to the author’s journey, she felt compelled that 2018 should be a year to learn more about healthy relationships and started to pray for opportunities to see good relationships at work. On the Atlantic coast, Tim gathered with his family around the table as they listed prayer requests for the next year. A specific one for Tim was that he would meet his future wife prior to moving from Orlando the following summer. Unbeknownst to them, God was interweaving their stories from across the continent. Exactly one week prior to Tim moving to Kansas City he went to a going away party for some friends. As God tends to orchestrate things, this was the point that the two would meet. Conversation flowed over the hours that followed ranging from international health, to life abroad and cultural experiences. Johanna was three days from leaving for Uganda to conduct research and she naturally thought that she and Tim were ships in the night. Though she assumed they missed their opportunity for a relationship, Tim wanted to get to know her. They spent the summer writing What’s App messages that read like letters and making longer and longer phone calls every weekend with terrible service. Three weeks after Johanna returned to the US, Tim flew back to Florida to take Johanna on their first date. What followed were a couple of flights back and forth, with each visit building the mutual understanding that the relationship was worth pursuing. Tim eventually asked Johanna to be his girlfriend on the same beach that he would one day propose to her, starting their beautiful adventure.