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that the Lord would show me a sign if I were to stay in the relationship or not. I asked for Him to touch his heart and want to call me, and then I would know never to question Him again on the matter. Now, this was a near-impossible request, because it was quite late at night (past the time for me to accept calls from my friends), and he was working late and didn't usually get a chance to call me when he worked weekends like that. But just as soon as I finished praying, the telephone rang, and the first words out of his mouth were: "I felt like I had to call you and tell you that I love you." So that's when I knew without a doubt we would eventually get married.

By the time we did get married, nearly six years later, he had gotten to know some of my church family and would attend church events on occasion. He still didn't go to church services, but agreed to eventually start going to church when he was not working. But then two things happened - I got pregnant, and my faith blossomed to a whole new level. Several months after the birth of our daughter, he attended church with both my parents and his family in order to have her dedicated to God. It was a sobering moment for me, making me realize that going forward my walk with God would have to be more defined. I then fell into the pattern of taking our daughter to church with me alone, until I found that I had outgrown the faith. I broke away to find a new beginning, frustrated at not being able to connect with others who understood God with the passion I was feeling. What I didn't expect was for my husband to tell me "I'm glad you left that church, they were all a little weird." That's when it dawned on me why he had hesitated as he did about joining my faith. What an eye-opener that was! He watched me change, commented on it, and gained an even deeper respect for me.

I've made friends in my new church, and they've met my husband. We all went out together, and later he told me that they seemed like ok people he wouldn't mind seeing once in a while. But when we all went out for dinner, he changed his mind, saying he didn't really have anything in common with them. Since then, they've been a blessing to us in our times of need, altering his thinking of them yet again. I know God's work is not done in this story, and I continue to pray for God's will in our lives.

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