To God be the glory great things He hath done!

“What exactly happened?” is a response we have received when friends and acquaintances hear about our becoming engaged in 2 hours and 15 minutes.  Then we typically comment (as I wrote yesterday) that the reason it took so long was an hour in a meeting and an hour at dinner.  Neither one of us knew that we were coming to this camp until the last minute.  Donna, from North Carolina , was invited by a college classmate to go with her to a “dumb old Christian camp” that her folks were making her go to.  Donna, on the other hand, was excited to come because God had been wooing her to Himself.  Here are some of the key things that happened:

After sitting down in the auditorium, I asked Donna if I could ask her a personal question.  She said yes, being curious what I would ask.  I asked her, “Are you saved?”  She replied, “If you tell me what you mean, I’ll tell you what I think.”  I then said, “If you were to die or if Jesus returned, would you go to heaven or to hell?”  She gave me the answer when she said, “I’d probably go to hell because I haven’t done anything good enough to go to heaven.”  I knew I wanted to tell her about Jesus.  The meeting then started. 

During the course of the meeting, the speaker said something funny and everyone laughed.  During the laughter Donna looked at me and there was a bright glow around my head.  She was startled by it and wondered what it was? I was totally unaware of this phenomenon.

The three of us went from the meeting to the cafeteria to have dinner.  David sat to her left and I was going to sit to her right when the thought went through my mind to sit across from her.  I immediately responded to that thought and went around the end of the table, put my tray across from her and sat down.  As I looked up, our eyes met and my heart exploded with “THAT’S HER!”  I was beside myself, not knowing what to do – except play with my food for the rest of the meal because my appetite was gone.  A stunning, tumultuous event was going on inside of me.

When we finished dinner, David asked her to go with him to take some film to be developed.  Great was my relief when she said no.  After he left, I asked if we could go for a walk and she said yes.  Even though I was beside myself with what was going on within me, I wanted to tell her about Jesus and how I met him.  She wanted to find out what was the glow that was around my head in the meeting.

To be continued…