025 Finding your Voice – 10 years of marriage: Our journey

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In my early 30s, I can remember praying a short, but very sincere prayer: “God, I want to be closer to You.”

I would say instantly, but I think at least a few seconds may have ticked off the clock, between my prayer and His answer.

There wasn’t a booming voice from Heaven, lightning bolts streaking through the sky, or even a flashing neon sign, yet I can remember exactly where I was, in my little single-man’s apartment, when a very clear, simple thought, entered my mind, “You need to get married.””

That is all I needed to know. From that point on, it wasn’t about “would I”, “could I”, “should I”; (by the way, when I was in my teens and 20s, marriage was the farthest thing from my mind), it was a question of “with whom?”

God brought Pei and I together in August, 2000 on purpose, for a purpose.

We thank you in advance for listening to our brief story and we hope it is a blessing to you.

Please remember that no matter where you are in life, (single, widowed, divorced, in a bad place) God can take your situation and immediately turn it around for His glory.

What you uncover, God covers. Reach out and share a part of your story if you’d like.

In our brief podcast we share:

• The timing that surrounded our first meeting;
• The choice to elope instead of going the traditional route;
• Our false expectations of marriage and of each other;
• The early struggles with debt and career;
• The lessons we learned about our personality styles and how they were designed to complete, rather than compete;
• The realization that we needed to combine our best features and enduring qualities into our own opportunity.

We mentioned this show in our podcast – The power of knowing yourself. We are so excited for Anita and what she is doing with what she learned from the conference.