How did you meet your mate...OR...How are you preparing yourself???

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Tisha and Paul: “at my most beautiful”...A true “love” story.

Tisha and Paul both had troubling relationships. Tisha had a five-year relationship that wasn't going anywhere. Paul had several dead-end relationships. They both attended the same University. Tisha a junior. Paul a senior.

Paul was not the kind of guy Tisha would have normally gone for. Tisha was not the kind of girl Paul had dated.

They both did something at the same time: they both surrender-both purposely turned to prayer and said, “I give it up. I leave it for you, God, to bring me the person I am to marry.”

The first time they met, Tisha was in the school cafeteria with a girlfriend.

Paul was not normally in the cafeteria at that time. He liked avoiding peak traffic time. But that evening he had an obligation and, carrying his tray, he looked around. There was only one seat available-across from Tisha.

“What struck me was how much I laughed,” said Tisha. “We had this conversation and everything he said made me laugh.”

They talked.

And they talked. Their first conversation, the next night, lasted five hours.

“I knew in that conversation that Paul was the person I was going to marry,” confessed Tisha.

“Me too,” said Paul.

“But the feelings were so strong that I just wanted to run away from them, then everywhere I turned, the name 'Paul' just kept popping up: in conversations, in things I read...everywhere! It seemed like a confirmation that I wasn't supposed to run away.”

“There was this song I played for Tisha,” said Paul. “It wasn't a top-forty hit or anything like that, but everywhere we went, that song was playing. On elevators, at the mall, on a car radio as we were walking by. It was an REM song, 'At My Most Beautiful.' “

“That song came on every time I started questioning my feeling,” said Tisha.

After only a few months, sitting in Tisha's dorm, Paul formally asked the question that seemed to naturally emerge from their conversation: “Tisha...will you marry me?”

Nine months after they met, they were married.

Everything fell into place, said Tisha. “When I went to my mother to tell her we were getting married I was worrying about how we could have a wedding and afford to find a place to live. But she surprised me with something I didn't know: for years my grandfather had put away money for my wedding. So, we not only had the money to get started, but we had a honeymoon at Disney World.”

Tisha and Paul are happily married, with a two-year-old daughter. She's a teacher, he's in advertising.

What do they say are the three most important things for a successful relationship?

Tisha: trust, love, and forgiveness.
Paul: communication, trust, and humor.


(From the book “When God Winks on Love” by Squire Rushnell)