It’s been around 3 months, and when I actually take a sec to think about it, I still can’t believe it’s real.
When I came to Paraguay, I had one goal: minister to kids through teaching them English. At the same time, God was busy setting me up. Just like he’d been setting me up since high school to get me here, once He got me here, He began setting me up for this next step in my life. I wasn’t in the country 10 minutes before conversation led to Oscar saying to me “it’s better to find your wife than to look for her.” Many, many, *many* people told me I would find my wife in Paraguay. I laughed it off and said “whatever, that’s not why I’m going.” It still isn’t why I came.
Sometimes crazy things happen. I’ve vaguely referenced this before, but God has been writing a beautiful story of love in my life that reached a new chapter this year. I had heard about this “really cute” girl named Kathy (KAHtee) since I got here, and finally in December I figured out who she was. By February I was quite interested in her, and by June I was ready to let her know. Behind the scenes of my own little musical, God had been working in her life to lead her towards me. We’ve been together for a while, and God has continued to answer prayers, both hers and mine. Some of them she tells me surprise and humble me, and I can sincerely say that God is *so* good.
What’s amazing about how He worked with us is that He told us the same thing using two different scriptures several months apart and without much interaction between Kathy and I. After she told me how the Lord answered her prayers for direction, I realized that I had mentioned to God that it would be really cool if He used the same story to answer her. He did me one better. In April he told me what was going to happen using scripture more from the male perspective, and in August He told Kathy what was going to happen using scripture from the female perspective. Both scriptures complementarily write the story of the beginning of our life together.
Please continue to pray for us as we have a LOT to figure out and not a whole lot of time in which to do the figuring. There are various documents, forms, and sets of paperwork that will need to get done by the time we get married, and I want to help her get as much done as possible while I’m still here. It’ll all turn out fine; God has been immensely faithful. Of course He has….I guess what I mean to say is that He has immensely surprised me with the goodness and abundance of His faithfulness.
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
-j
I'm Jason, and I like to write.