God Wrote My Love Story - Part 3

Continuation of God wrote my love story - The Wedding:

March 3, 2004 my husband to be (Seth) flew back to the US for 3 1/2 months for his career in the Navy, I was left in Bahrain and I was the one doing everything for the wedding preparation. We only had communication through emails and via telephone, so all the preparation was done by me. It was kind a stressful during the preparation because I was doing it by myself and he was far to help me out. Praise God because God's people is offering a lot of help, from the wedding invitations that I ordered from Philippines, to the give aways that needed to be brought to Bahrain from China and the wedding arrangements for the church. The "barong's" for the grooms men, ring bearer, coin bearer and for Seth were from Philippines. It was really stressful but thanks to God. My flight stewardess friend offered to help out getting the barong tagalong (Official clothes of the Philippines) for them when she made a flight to Manila. Then one of my secondary sponsors who lives in Manila offered to take care of the 300 pieces of give aways and the wedding invitations before she came out for the ceremony. Even though Seth was far from me at that time of preparation he always made sure that I had everything that I needed like money. I was so happy because he spent money to buy the textiles for my maid of honor, brides maids, flower girls and carpet roller. A friend of mind volunteered to be the wedding coordinator for free and some of my friends helped me out for the wedding arrangements, although we hired a flower arrangement.

He came back a week away from the wedding, so he still had time to help me out with some important things. The wedding was very successful and all the attendees were enjoying their time. We invited around 250 guests and most of them showed up. For me, it was the biggest day and happiest moment of my life and I will always cherish our unforgettable day together. Now, we are blessed by God with two beautiful and cute children Joseph Nathanael & Johnathan Aaron. Marriage is not easy, as the old saying says "Marriage is not like a food that if you put it in your month and if it's too hot, you will spit out" you should always be ready to accept your partner whatever he is and learn the differences and Let Jesus Christ be the Center of your marriage.

My final message:

It's time to make a choice. We can embrace an empty, selfish lifestyle that ends in heartache and despair, or we can learn to live and love selflessly just like our own Great Lover Himself. God is longing to write your love story, a love story far beyond the most incredible fairy tale ever written. Will you give Him the pen today?

God Wrote My Love Story-Part 2

"The continuation of God wrote my love story"

I met him at the restaurant after our choir practice and had a wonderful dinner with him but I was still not aware of his purpose, I was just broken hearted at that time from my last boyfriend, I was crying telling him everything what happened to me with my ex boyfriend while we were having dinner together. Isn't it funny? God is really working in mysterious ways, I told him that if he wants to pursue his good intension's, I wanted him to visit me at my sister's house so that he could meet my sister and brother-in-law. For the longest time, I had no interest in military men and especially foreigners and he was both. So I kept on praying to our Almighty Father that if he is the right man, God will make a way and prepare me for him. I said to Him "Lord teach me how to love this man, because he is exactly the opposite of what I am looking for". After couple of weeks I finally started to fall in love with him. So, I decided to get more advice from my office mates, friends and fellow Christians in our church, they were all very supportive and were not against him. Early January 5, 2004, I finally told him YES, you will be my boyfriend, and I was so happy because all my friends were happy for me as they liked him very much.


In February 5, 2004, it was our first month anniversary. He decided to ask my sister, brother in law and our friends about proposing to me. And on February 5, 2004 he finally did it. He sang "Matud Nila" ("that's what they said") with a couple of our Filipino friends and he also had a very special song that he dedicated to me "I pour my love on You" performed by a Christian group named "Philipps, Craig and Dean. I was really surprised at what the engagement turned out to be, because I saw a basin with water in it and a bottle of perfume. Every body was looking at each other including me and my sister and we're wondering what he was gonna do with a basin of water and perfume. So I sat down on the other couch with my sister and he was kneeling on the floor and he took one leg at a time and washed my feet with it and then poured perfume on them and kissed them. While he was doing this, he was reading the passage in the bible where Jesus Christ washed the feet of his disciples, proclaiming that He will serve them until the very end. Every body was amazed at what he did. We set the date for our wedding that night. We both agreed that it was going to be happen on the 30th of June 2004.

To be continued