After Craig and his family moved to the United States, he continued with his life without knowing that a woman created just for him, was growing up in a different place. Yadith was born in Colombia, in a small town called "Charalá" and yet, she had no clue that the LORD had created a good husband who will take care of her, a good man who will love her, just as Christ loves His church. Both Craig and Yadith had different experiences growing up, but God had a plan to be fulfilled for their lives.
Craig accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior, and so did Yadith. Not at the same day, not at the same place, neither at the same time, but the same Spirit was with them. After years went by, Craig decided to go to Costa Rica to study Spanish; his desire for doing missions in Latin America had grown in a way that he never imagined. The All powerful King of Kings brought Yadith out of her country to a place she never thought she could be...The United States of America. She had passion for doing missions and she wanted a man by her side who will share her dreams and walk with her any place her God will take her. During her second year in the States, she moved to live in New Jersey and there she met the Snyder family; a family who served the same God Craig knew, the same Lord Yadith was following. Amy, one of the Snyder's daughters, told Yadith about a good man she knew; a man with three specific characteristics: number one, he wanted to go to missions; number two, he was really nice, and number three he was tall! As the time for Yadith to stay at the States was short at that point, she decided not to meet him because she didn't want to get involved in a relationship that would not last and would have left her with a broken heart. Time was not in her favor, she needed to go back home.
Craig was studying and talking to his good friend Brian, who was Amanda's husband. Amanda is another woman from the Snyder family who knew Yadith very well. It was Brian who told Craig that he could practice his Spanish with this woman from Colombia who attended his father in law's church. After all she was learning English and he could help her too.
It was fall, as I remember, and Yadith got an e-mail; she was surprised after she opened and thought that Amy had given Craig her e-mail address, even though she asked her not to give it to him. Weeks went by and Craig and Yadith were talking more and more. After some e-mails, the phone calls started to happen more and more often, and one day, Amy told Yadith that it wasn't her who told Craig about her. To Yadith's surprise it was Brian.-"But why?-Yadith asked-"I just say hi to him and that's all, does he knows me?"-Maybe, maybe not. But it was God working on her path, sending a man she could not imagine, a man she had refused to meet.
By Christmas time, Craig went back to the States to spend some days with his family, and it was the perfect opportunity to meet this woman. They had been talking for months and never seen each other in person, but yet in their hearts there was love; an incredible and mysterious love neither of them had ever known, not ever felt, nor ever thought.
Amy was right. When Yadith saw Craig for the first time, she saw clearly that he was tall; after spending their first date, she was completely sure that he was nice and that his passion was missions in the Latin American world.
Craig and Yadith fell in love, in a way the world had never known; yet the LORD brought them together because His will needed to be done. They dated another time and it was time to say good-bye. Craig returned to Costa Rica to follow his call, and Yadith went back to Colombia to follow what the LORD had spoke. She knew that Craig was going to be her husband, she knew it in her heart but she never told him so, because she knew it wasn't God's timing but it will happen someday... a wedding to remember, a story to be told. God had gave her peace to go to her country and not knowing how exactly He will bring her back to Craig, but it took just a little faith that let her go on her way.
Craig had no clue what to do; he had fallen in love with a woman that he couldn't probably ever see again. He was confused but his decision was to keep talking to her, after all they both had phones and internet. It wasn't easy, not for him nor for her, but there was hope, there was faith and a Savior who is faithful, who had a perfect plan for this two souls.
It was the beginning of a journey of love; a journey that took them to different places and Spiritual levels; a journey that made them happy and sad, and made them cry out to God. A journey that the LORD held in His hands, a journey that would show them that even though they couldn't see, there was a Heavenly Father who had a way, who had brought them from different countries to the same place, because He was seeing the future that was just dreamed by them.
To be continue...
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