I’ve been thinking a lot about you lately and wondering where you are in this great big world. I’m fairly certain that I haven’t met you yet, but I can’t wait until I do. You already inspire me to want to be a better man and more importantly, a man who follows hard after Christ.
I don’t know if you’re like me and you’ve come so close to mind-numbing despair so many times and almost given up and quit about a thousand times. But there’s something, no matter how tiny, that won’t let us give up or give in. Maybe the same God that drew us each to Himself is drawing us ever so slowly together.
I am going to start praying for you tonight. I will pray not that God will make your way easier, but that He will walk through the hard roads with you and you will know sweet intimacy with Him. I pray not for prosperity for you, but that you will come to know with your whole being that God is your dwelling place, your shelter and your inheritance.
I may not have a lifetime to love you in when we meet, but I will love you a lifetime’s worth in the time we are given. It won’t be a perfect me and a perfect you in a perfect setting forever, but Christ in me loving Christ in you in the midst of the awesome advancing of God’s kingdom on earth.
So know that I think about you a lot and those thoughts make me glad. You will be so much more than I deserve and I will (I hope and pray) never stop being thankful to God for you.
Don’t run after me (or any other guy), but run after Jesus. I will try to not run after you, but also run after Jesus and maybe when we are both running toward the same Savior, we will run into each other.
You are clothed with strength and dignity; you can laugh at the days to come. “Charm can mislead and beauty soon fades. The woman to be admired and praised is the woman who lives in the Fear-of-God.” That’s what I pray you are becoming. And I pray that I am becoming a warrior and a mighty man of God who will be worthy of you.
Until we meet, God make His face shine on you and give you His blessed peace.
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Beautiful and precious. I love you bro.
I hope you save this and give it to your wife one day…maybe the day of your wedding. She will melt over these words from your heart!
Wow. That’s really beautiful, Greg. I’m sure she’ll love looking back and reading that someday in the future.
Granted, I don’t know your personal situation, but I was “late” to marriage and I attribute a lot of it to personal expectations and angst. My introvertedness combated with personal wants, to the point of having an insurmountable bar for any prospective companion/spouse. To that end I didn’t begin “dating” until my mid-twenties and after four years and turning 30 I decided it was time to reevaluate the whole situation. I effectively threw in the towel. I handed it all over to God. I became willing to accept the probability and idea of singleness, to embrace the positives that singleness can offer for a Christian who truly desires to put Christ first.
Within the span of about two months of coming to that conclusion and acceptance, I found the woman who would be my wife. In fact, I was so set in the idea of my new way of thinking that I almost passed my wife by. I had become ambivalent. I had stopped thinking about a future spouse. I had stopped worrying and “planning” and “designing” what my wife and relationship should be.
She and I often talk about what if’s. Wishing that we’d have met sooner, but we both know that it was all in God’s timing. Neither of us were ready for each other until the point that we’d met. She had just been born-again a few months before; I was continuing to walk in the path of rekindling my faith.
It took us less than a month to know that there was something between us that neither of us had ever experienced relationally with any other person. We were suited for each other. We truly are two as one. My wife jokes that I need to get out of her head. We often know each other’s thoughts, completing sentences – doing things for one another well in advance without any hint or request that the other had thought about/wanted.
We were married less than a year after we first met. We’ve been married for 5 1/2 years and come this late winter we’re expecting twins, our third and fourth children.
Leave it all in the Lord’s hands. You will find your wife when you least expect it. I have a close friend who was going through a similar circumstance to mine. I told him exactly what I’ve just told you. Within a month of me telling him this, he found the woman he’d eventually marry. Next month will be their third anniversary.
And do keep your letter for your potential future wife. It will certainly melt her heart and endear you to her all the more.
Greg, that is sooo beautiful. I will join you in prayer and I am looking forward to meet her!