A World of Miracles

[Originally posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007]

I'm going to tell you a story. The kind of story you don't normally read on someone's blog. It's about my mom and dad, and how the Lord brought them together 30 years ago. My dad still calls it a "summer romance." They knew each other 13 weeks, afterall.

My mom became a Christian because her boyfriend became a Christian and broke up with her. So she read the Bible to see what it was that he left her for. In those pages, she met Jesus. And he transformed her life. For two years, she grew in the Lord, still aching over her heartbreak. (See? It's genetic!) Eventually, she began going to a particular church, where she didn't really know anyone yet. One Sunday evening, she was praying about the jerk who broke up with her, and a friend invited her to go out with a bunch of the other college folk after church. And that's where she was first introduced to Steve...my dad.

Nope, they didn't even talk that first night. Mom was too busy chatting with the other kids, and Dad was being introverted and quiet. But he knew. He went home and told his parents he had met the woman he was going to marry. My mom felt it too, but didn't trust herself.

Well, I guess in the weeks that followed, they began seeing each other and going to church and coffee house together (seriously, that was a fun date for them! haha). About five weeks after they had met, my dad brought my mom to her house, and as they were sitting down on her front steps, the Holy Spirit surrounded each of them with an amazing sense of the presence of God. And my dad turns to my mom and says, "I wasn't planning to ask you this, but . . . will you be my wife?"

She said yes, of course.

But she had doubts. Who wouldn't? She knew this dude for five weeks. One morning, as she was looking in the mirror, putting on her makeup, she said, "Lord, it will be a miracle if this marriage works."

Immediately, the Lord rebuked her and said, "Are you willing to walk into a world of miracles?

Eight weeks later, they were married. And after 30 years, my parents are still walking in a world of miracles.

The moral of the story is: Trust in the Lord, even when he's downright CRAZY.