I’ve prayed for God’s will in my life and in whatever form it would take. Through spiritual discipline, God gave me the teaching lesson on how to grow in my faith and trust in Him — and to keep an open mind on what He will want me to work on next for my Jesus-like character development. As a single-mom, God has been co-parenting alongside me, and has been my husband. God’s grace allowed for great healing, restoration and forgiveness from my divorce and I was open to new possibilities of meeting a born-again Christian husband who would pursue me and want to be in a committed Christ-centred marriage — who would honour purity through courtship — who would want to serve Christ along with me in missions trips and in daily life. Well — I truly did say “God, this isn’t what I ordered” when he introduced me to a man whose heritage/identity/nationality/culture is Jewish. This God-fearing man of integrity is intrigued with my walk with Christ and is compelled by what I believe. He has high reverence for Jesus but doesn’t see Jesus as his personal savior or the Messiah. So, I am learning more of how God and Jesus is seen or revealed through his Jewish upbringing, even though he is not an observant Jew. What will God unfold from this? I don’t know. I suspect more packages will follow?

Our story began several years ago when my husband became increasingly sadder and sadder, removing himself from his family and friends. Being diagnosed with depression put a name to the sadness and our family began to cope – both our marriage and family life severly affected. The children and I began to go to church alone and to function without “dad”. This went on for 5 years. I prayed earnestly for God to bring him back to a complete healing with God. Then our “package” arrived and not at all the way I had planned it. My husband ended up in the hospital after a terrible episode which spiraled him to his lowest of lows. After three weeks in the hospital he is home and there is peace and a renewed hope for the future.