Halfpint's Homepage: An Answered Prayer

As a 12 year old girl I went to church camp and took part in a bible study about sexual purity. During the course of this 1 hour bible study, I made two decisions that changed the course of my life.

First, I decided that I wanted to wait until my wedding night to have sex. My virginity would be my wedding gift to my husband.

Second, on that day, I started praying for my husband. I did not meet my husband until 10 years later, but I knew he was out there somewhere and I wanted to bless him with my prayers.

Two years ago today I was blessed to walk down this aisle...

And stand before God, family and friends...

And give my heart to a man more wonderful than I could have ever dreamed.

The past two years have been wonderful. God has chosen to give us more blessings gifts than we could possibly deserve. We owe everything good in our lives to him, and we have a whole lot of good.

I made a comment to a friend the other day that I couldn't believe how much God had chosen to bless me during the past two years and they have been the happiest two years of my life. She jokingly responded "Minus the whole him living in a war zone for a year bit right?" I had a good laugh at that and responded "Definitely minus that part!" After reflecting on that conversation a bit though I realized that as lonely and frightening as those long months were, I wouldn't trade them for the world. That year taught me to get down on my knees and pray for my husband with a fervor that I had never experienced before.

So today, I thank the Lord for giving me a husband who is so kind, loving and generous. He is a wonderful man of God, a good husband, and my best friend.

Even if he did drop cake down the inside of my wedding dress...