I spoke to my husband last night about our relationship. I feel like I was blessed and lucky to have found him and to have the life that I do, but I also know that both of us made a decision early on in our lives that made our finding each other possible and that decision has a lot to do with faith.
I grew up with all the same ideas as most of the little girls around me. I heard the stories about princess waiting for their knight in shining armor and living happily ever after. People told me about growing up, finding a husband, getting married, and having children. That’s why I was supposed to do. That’s what a normal life looked like. Except I didn’t know if I wanted a normal life. I tried several times thinking that it was the way I should live my life, but every time I tried, it just didn’t feel right. Then, I remember one day having a horrible argument with my parents and thinking that I would just settle for whatever guy came around and that would be it. Except that thought felt worse than anything else. I didn’t want to just settle for an ordinary life with just anyone. I decided that I would rather be single than share a normal life with just anyone. I wanted to wait until I found the right person. I made some huge mistakes along the way, but I did find the right person and I don’t have an ordinary normal life. I don’t live according to anyone’s expectations. My life is whatever I want it to be even if it is a challenge for me to make my dreams a reality, at least I know my life is mine.
Well, my life is mine and God’s. I don’t think I was meant to follow the same road as everyone else. I believe that if I had I would have been very disappointed and bored with my life. I know there’s so much more to my life and I want to continue to meet the challenges as they come up. I said that the decision had a lot to do with faith. My husband and I both had a chance to choose simple normal lives, but we didn’t. We could have had great careers, okay marriages, and kids, but we didn’t want the normal lives that everyone else had. We believed that somewhere out there was a soulmate waiting for us and that if we could find them, we would find a love that would last forever. We had faith that searching for that soulmate was worth it. I believe our faith paid off.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
