Fate

     

    
     I've been, recently especially, thinking about how "lucky" it was that my boyfriend Marshall and I met...but "lucky" isn't the right word.  I truly believe it was fate.  All the hardships I went through and the decisions I made in high school and afterward (deciding where to go to college, what to major in, my reunion and then break-up with my ex-boyfriend Charlie) all led straight to Marshall.  If even one little aspect of the path leading to meeting Marshall was out of place, then we quite possibly would have never met!  My decision to go to Stevens Point for college, the timing of my break-up with Charlie and the heartbreak that caused me to join eHarmony just in time before Marshall gave up on it, and then once I was on eHarmony there were tons of matches and somehow Marshall found me...so many little details went into this.  It's such an amazingly, intricately beautiful miracle of Fate.

      "God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you."  Those Rascal Flatts lyrics really make sense to me now.  Everything I went through--all the loneliness, envy, desperate dreaming, and heartbreak--was worth it because it brought me the best gift of all: my true love. 

     People can call me a sappy romantic if they want and claim that what I believe is merely dreamy make believe, but I will always and ardently believe that true love exists and that God will lead you to this special individual who was made just for you.  And when that happens, your world will never be the same. 

     When I look into my true love's eyes, I am overcome with a wondrous sense of awe.  Whenever I look into Marshall's eyes, seeing and loving both his flaws and his qualities, I believe I'm catching a glimpse of God, of eternity, of true beauty and purity.  "When we love rightly, some mortal being can become a window through which higher dimensions of reality shine forth."  It's not just a shift of perspective; it's a whole new reality...a reality of true love like you've never felt before.  A love so strong and eternal that both amazes you/fills you with joy but also frightens you with its startling intensity.  It's like loving God.  I think this love is actually a love for God.  He led you to your true love, so He lives within this individual, and the unconditional love you share with your lover can spread to others so that they can find their true loves...their glimpses of God.  Because after all, "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him" (1 John 4:16b).