Here’s a question to consider: What sets you apart?

I met my husband when I was 40. At that point, I had not had a date in 10 years. On the day we met, I didn’t hear wedding bells or angels sing. It really wasn’t all that significant or memorable. I just decided to show up for an outreach our church was sponsoring to help a community nearby impacted by a tornado. I grabbed a rake and helped clean up yards while Bruce climbed up on a roof with a hammer. I ended up covered in dirt and exhausted, but it was good work. I was thankful to be able to encourage those families.

I ran into Bruce several weeks later in the back hallway between the bathrooms and the church banquet hall. He was joining another outreach team traveling to Mississippi to help hurricane victims. My work schedule did not allow me to attend, but I made it a point to let everyone in the group know I’d be praying for them.

The conversation probably lasted about 2 minutes. He smiled politely and replied, “Hey, thanks for praying.” And, he moved on his way.

Two years later, no one was more surprised than me when I got to wear a big white dress and walk down the aisle. If you ask my husband how we ended up together, he won’t tell you it’s the highlights in my hair or my manicured nails. He cares not about the shade of my lipstick or what perfume I wear.

Ask Bruce what inspired him to give up his old bachelor ways and purchase a very expensive diamond ring, and he will take you back to that two-minute conversation in that hallway.

He just kept thinking, “That girl. She prays.”

Esther stood out in a sea of women not because she was drop dead gorgeous, but because she was humble and teachable above all…

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