j and m

our story

in october of 2015, i set out on an intentional year of singleness to solely pursue my relationship with Jesus and see what He wanted for me. but... let’s be honest, i was 19 (practically a baby), just started my dts with ywam, and had A LOT of soul healing that needed to happen, and I just couldn’t afford to let a boy mess that up. the months went by, and Jesus changed a lot in my heart that i didn’t even know was there.

then in july of 2016, i moved to washington state and visited for the first time my now “home church” where a stranger at the time prophesied over me that i would most likely meet and get to know my husband within the next year. my first thought was, “WHAT. either you hear from God or you messed up on this one bud...” keep in mind i had just started to getting to know jason and deep down knew he was the one and that this stranger was right. how terrifying is that?!?

during my year of singleness, i felt Jesus ask me not to kiss anyone until my wedding day. at the time i thought that was a pretty outrageous thing to ask of me but of course I said yes. I mean, come on.. the creator of the universe asked me to do something for him. of course I said yes. so this was the very first conversation i had with jason when we started dating in december of 2016. what a scary first conversation! like, “sorry dude but if we don’t get married, we ain’t kissing.” luckily, god had asked the same of him. so we didn’t kiss not even once until we got married. which was very hard to do cause love, right?!? anyways, god used those months to show us SO MUCH about his original design for marriage and it is by far the most beautiful thing.

now we are almost two years into this thing called marriage and though we have our moments, we no longer have to eskimo kiss and for that, i'm thankful. just happen to be reminiscing on all of this today...

i'm reminded of when we were dating, our story, pursuing JESUS’ original design for our marriage, pursuing each other’s hearts and how we get to serve each other. praise God for the beauty that is marriage.