Valentine's Day: My Story Continued

By February of 1996 I was starving to know about God. I had been raised Catholic and went to a private school in Parma-Incarnate Word Academy. I thank God fo the foundations I learned there as a child. Some of my fondest memories were attending church as a family when I was younger. Now all I wanted to do was go to church. Any time the doors were open I was there. Danielle told me about a great youth group meeting very Wednesday at Immanuel in Brookpark. I started going there with her. I also went to church there and attended all the special services, dying to know about Jesus more.
It was at a special missionary service that really cahnged the direction of my life. You see, if God had not called Lance and Maryann Hastings, missionaries to Puerto Rico, to come to Immanuel to speak, then I would never have met Jeff Brown. If I had never met Jeff Brown, I would never had started doing children's ministry. If I had never started doing children's ministry, I would never have changed my major to teaching. If I had never changed my major to teaching, I would never have changed colleges. If I had never changed colleges, I would never have stayed in Cleveland. If I had never stayed in Cleveland, I would not have met and married Russ. If I had never married Russ, I would have missed out on God's perfect plan.
So the story continues as I ponder on this Valentine's Day how awesome God is to have arranged all that and more.
"Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."

Thank God for my valentine- my husband, my best friend, and the most wonderful man I know. I can't imagine life without him.