6 billion - 1

6 billion people on this planet. So many random choices, interactions, situations, and I could have ended up else where.

But out of 6 billion people, God chose one.

One.

See in my unbelief, I started to think that maybe God didn't have just one person for me. That perhaps it was all just chance or right place, right time stuff. My fairytale belief in soul mates started to falter.

But on December 8, 2012, every expectation, every preconceived notion about love, every doubt was shattered. Obliterated. See the pain of every no and locked door is completely overshadowed when you stand before the door so easily and widely open. 

I stood at the airport that night, so nervous I could hear my heart beating in my ears.

But then when my one appeared at the top of the escalators that night, I knew. It wasn't a flood of emotions, a tangible feeling, or even a physical reaction. It was just knowing. Peace.

There is something so mind-blowingly simple about God. God, in His God-ness, actually makes this very controversial and sometimes painful area of our lives, very simple. It is we who make it complicated.

See, when God in His God-ness chooses one from 6 billion, all complexities actually fade away. You don't have to psychoanalyze it. You don't have to over-rationalize it. You don't have to ask people's opinions about it. And you don't have to explain it...at all. It's as if God absorbs all those complexities and you are left with just a simple knowing. Peace.

It just is.

I knew before I ever met you, before I ever touched you, that you were the one I would vow for eternity to spend my life with.

You are perfectly imperfect for me. My other half.

You are the missing puzzle piece to the canvas of my experience. The piece that will now turn the trajectory of my life to places I never knew possible. The next chapter in my book of life. You are the answer to that prayer she prayed 30 years ago, the fulfillment of a longing he had 33 years ago.

You are everything I thought I didn't want and most definitely everything I need. Everything.

God made it so very simple, you see. In His God-ness, he brought together two of the most random people from across the universe, only to show us His not-so-random ways, His loving, magnificent, gracious love for us. To show that He can make possible the impossible. That He can redeem what the world says cannot be redeemed.

Our story is not the norm. For many it may be difficult to understand.

But I can't shake the truth. My simple knowing. The peace I have that transcends all understanding.

I choose you. For better or worse. I choose you.

12.7.13