my progress and like actually liking him took much longer than it did for su for
me and took over a year which I've heard stories and I made it really easy for
him
hi I'm Carol and I'm Steve and this is a story of how we met yeah so about three
years ago I started working at a church and a year into working there we needed
a new worship pastor in the spanish ministry one of the drummers who was
volunteering at the church approached one of our leader volunteers and you
know mentioned that he had a sister who had graduated from Loyola where they
worship and music degree so our lead volunteer who was in charge at the
moment at the time reached out to Carol they got together on a Wednesday we met
up on Thursday and that was when you know that that participant area who was
our friend Diana said I think I met your future wife we were all curious to see
who carol was in and so we pulled up Facebook which is funny because we know
never met we have a lot of mutual friends and we had never met the first
first time we met it was I I actually was volunteering I was s to volunteer
it's on a Sunday to like tryout so I wasn't like trying to meet any
specific person I was just trying to like do my job
when she walked in I just kind of thought oh I got to hear her oh my god
okay I like this guy fast forward I get I get the job I'm the creative arts
pastor he is the tech director and so he we had to encounter a lot of our time
together so he was a very cool guy but that was all for me he's a cool guy and
that's it yeah so for me it was it was very evident I was falling in love and
regardless of you know how cool I kept it apparently she knew she knew I liked
but I tried to be really cool I tried to be really smart about how I approached
her work was work and you know friendship was friendship she was a
great guy so because of the I didn't I didn't want to like hurt his feelings so
from the beginning I was trying to be very clear where what my intentions
because I I could tell that he liked me I rejected him without him telling me
that he liked me I think what I started noticing is that like no matter what I
did he never treated me differently he was always very respectful even after I
had rejected him without him asking anything he was he acted like that never
happened there was another occasion where he had asked me out to a play or
something a friend to play and I had like literally last year and he
purchased the tickets and everything in last minute I said I wasn't gonna go and
I just loved that he was always a gentleman always respected me so I
respected that and I like I gradually started to know him more in that sense
and then because we both live in Long Beach
he offered to start carpooling which was intentional on his own obviously I
figured if I can get it to be around me more often it's just I don't anymore I
then started to like me more which was it came to a point where I felt God was
clearly saying to me stop pushing away the people that I'm placing in your
heart so I accepted him more like as a friend I thought right and then as I
continue to like pray for my spouse because I've always done that since I
was little it got to a point where I felt God was saying if you push him away
you're pushing away something that I'm bringing into your life I wasn't ready
for that it wasn't ready in my heart to accept that because I had all types of
expectations and I thought Steve was not that after I allowed myself to receive
that and say okay whatever God you deal with this like I'm just gonna surrender
I started to notice Steve in a different way I started to ask him more specific
questions about his credit score is started to ask him about how many people
he's dated and he started noticing that I was what did you call him measuring
you up or something sizing me basically I didn't know how to
react I didn't know how to say anything I just kind of just stayed quiet which
he did that a lot yeah but in my head I'm thinking cool she's coming along
slowly but surely yeah and Steve took a long time to
actually tell me that he liked me and T took over a year to say something and it
was because I kind of it out of him but I think it was also
very wise of him because if he would have from the get-go told me I like you
and I want this and I want that I would have pushed him away 100% I don't know
why I did but I'm glad I did because within that month something changed and
Cara like drastically changed in Carole where it she even got like touchy where
she like touch my face and this was not like that but she like you know just
like you bet my cheek - sorry sir careful but I was also very careful on
not leading you on but my intention was never to do that with you right and I'm
I'm a very touchy person so I like hugging people I I show affection and I
would always do the Christian yes I hate the sisterly this is there you know the
Christian I mean all came out finally like yeah each other and why I you know
I don't realize what the question was that she asked me at the time but I just
remember kind of telling her it was regards to why I guess it was why I do
things for her or Wyatt why I'm the way I am for times like you you know and her
response was like yeah I know and you asked me if I liked you and I said I
guess yeah let's try needless to say one of the things who told me to take you if
you if you really in serious about this you're gonna have talked to my dad and
she she said a lot of things that were very fearful no scary no Gary fearful
what everyone I call you of her dad I just I just thought he was gonna drill
me before my you know social security number and everything and it didn't go
like that at all I kind of just told him how I felt about her he asked you know
how does she feel about you I said well she told me to be here so I'm assuming
you know she likes me too and he's he he was smiling the entire time to this day
I still kind of I'm amazed we prayed a little bit and then I you know I told
Carol and we we didn't want it to be you know from day to night and
either for her or you know I didn't need that kind of yeah yeah so it was a slow
bill that I think we were we were able to tell you know the immediate family
just because we wanted them to be aware and you know at the same time and
praying for us everyone was very happy for us
yeah people a lot of people had helped just prayed for that yeah you know it's
funny because I in my head I had planned I am I'm gonna propose her before the
end of 2017 again we met in middle of 2016 I was a
fall in love with her and pretty much at the end of that year I knew I would end
up marrying her and in the beginning of 2017 I told one of my good friends one
of my groomsmen actually hit I said I plan on marrying Carroll at the end of
2018 we got engaged at the end of 2017 and we getting married in October and I
would say that's the end of 2018 so I think God is real that was I think in
retrospect now looking back I don't know why it took me so long but it's just
part of our story yeah and I remember one of the first time Steve and I had
done like led worship together I noticed that when it came to worship there was
like a different type of like chemistry as well and so that was very cool which
is why we want to share a song with you guys too because that's how we connected
to that was part of how we met and worship was always individually a huge
part of our lives and one of the first songs we sing together was yes I see
those PN yeah so we're gonna sing that for you
while scooter said well it'll settle the aisle daddy
your starting line they're deep inside can i Selena but I
mean
but are united I can move this fire said
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where - Sara simply crazy here he puts him per se
and I see the fear here
give me the ha and plena no chills food an extended soos Brussels they are
I see
see ya
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people
so thank you guys for watching this video I hope you enjoyed not only the
song but also what we were able to share our story I think my greatest advice
Truscott to the point where like you can move aside what your ideals were or your
expectations were because if God is telling you something different from
what your mind or what the society kind of feeds us it's because he knows
something better than us but obviously he knows his ways are higher than our
ways and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts as scripture says we have
to be willing and faithful enough to hear what God has to offer and and know
that he is faithful the one thing that I that's awesome about God is he doesn't
complicate the instant I mean he makes Amy's things really simple though
sometimes the process isn't simple but it's not it shouldn't be shouldn't be
difficult and I think that was that was the one thing for us that we saw that it
was just God's hand in everything and just putting things in the right place
and putting things in order and I'm so you know thankful thankful for for Carol
T for the opportunity to just share our starting and just thankful that you guys
are hearing this hope you enjoyed it
we'll see you at that salmon
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