I've been meaning to post this letter I wrote for awhile now. All that follows came to pass the beginning of August and ever since then our love has grown and grown. Now we only have 50 more sleeps until we are finally together and I can hardly wait.
My Love Story
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 7:53am | Edit Note | Delete
Let me tell you of a love story that I never could have foreseen, a love story that begins and ends in the love of Jesus.
I have a dear friend who I’ve known for years named Daniel. Some years ago Daniel moved to South Africa and became best friends with my love, Teunis Cloete. Through the delightful invention of facebook, I noticed pictures of Teunis every once in awhile when Daniel would post new photos of yet another manly adventure into the wild, up a mountain or up a rock face. Teunis caught my eye to say the least. I still remember the day I was talking to Daniel and casually said, “so, tell me about your friend Teunis.” Daniel’s initial response was, “NO! Down girl!” But he soon went on to tell me about how highly he thought of his best friend and what an amazing man of God he was. Through a set of ridiculous circumstances, Teunis and I were soon chatting on facebook often and getting to know each other rapidly. Every time we talked (which was constantly) we discovered so many things we had in common and felt so free and open to share deeply about our dreams, pasts, everything! The most beautiful part of it all was how centered our friendship was in God, how everything we talked about came back to us just being in awe of who He is, we were and still are giddy with excitement at the things God was speaking to us through each other.
A month ago, Teunis moved to Montreal Canada because of a very clear word God gave him over a year ago to do so. Wow, what a good God we serve. Once Teunis arrived in Montreal, God started to give him words and then a dream that broke his heart and opened his eyes to the issues of human trafficking, and child sexual exploitation, the very things that God has broken my heart for, the very things I want to spend my life fighting against and ministering too.
Since he has been on the same continent as me, it has been even easier for us to connect and it became a daily occurrence for us to have 2-3 hour skype video chats. The more we talked, the more it became abundantly clear that, as he said, everything we were created to be was so perfect for each other. It has been quick, but over the past month, we have every day just fallen deeper in love with Jesus and deeper in love with each other.
Finally, Sunday night, after both of us separately knew in our hearts, beyond a shadow of a doubt that this love was one to last a lifetime, we told each other everything, it came pouring out, every word sweeter than the one before.
I am still reeling over all of this, over how much he loves and cherishes me and that he takes every opportunity to let me know that. I have never felt as precious to anyone besides my Jesus in my whole life and know that it will only get better. It’s a joke that we love each other this much and haven’t even met in person yet. But the beautiful thing is thinking of how amazing that will be when it happens, soon. If we love each other this much now, I fear my heart will stop beating when I am finally in his arms. For now, he is in my country (for those of you who like me sometimes forget that I am Canadian) and I am in his country. Oh the irony of it all. I am so thankful for the amazing peace God has put in both of us over every aspect of our crazy love. That even now, there is no uncomfortable yearning or longing to be anywhere but where God has placed each of us. We rest in knowing that we will be together in God’s flawless timing and that it will be PERFECT! Much love to you all!
Felicia
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