In His time, He makes all things beautiful. Let me share about how God makes all things beautiful for me, in His time.

I knew my husband when I was 17 years old. We met in a Peranakan Restaurant when working while waiting for our exams result. The restaurant is very near to the beach and we always go there to spend time with each other and pray. The prayer we uttered was “God, pls keep us together forever no matter what happen in our life”. After the exam result came our, I went to Form 6 and my husband to a local U, taking up law. (Yup, he was a lawyer, now a minister! God’s calling) As he was always busy with his studies and had financial problem, he seldom comes back home. I miss him terribly. So, we decided to end the relationship of 3 years and go our own separate ways. One thing that I always cherished about our relationship is, we never quarrel! I cried so much on the days he left my house after the break-up. I knew I have made the biggest mistake in my life! We continued to be friends and always keeping in touch.

Life goes on… He found a new girlfriend, me too (a boyfriend). I went to a local U also, in Penang. Far from home and boyfriend. My relationship with my new boyfriend is not a stable ones. We always quarrel! Many times I wanted to end it but he refuses. I gave him a year after I came back to Malacca to patch up things but to no avail. We ended the relationship. I was so happy this time! We are so not compatible spiritually.

In Malacca, we (me n husband) attended the same church. At that time, he already broke off with his girlfriend! They almost got married. I remembered, when he told me that his boss is starting another branch in Seremban and wanting him to manage it, I cried! He will be in his girlfriend hometown. I will loose him forever! Deep down I know I still love him very much but I kept it to myself. I dare not break anyone’s heart again. In September 2000, we went for a mission trip to the Iban’s in Sarawak. After the trip we decided to officially resume the relationship again. Our pastor knew about it, and other church member’s gave us their blessing including our parents. Pastor wants us to be engaged soonest possible as my husband is serving full time in church. Not nice to “pat tor” too long. We got engaged on husband’s birthday Dec 16, 2000. It was only 3 months of dating but we have no problem with it, as we knew each other for almost 10 years.

After we got engaged, pastor set another condition that it is advisable to get married within 6 months from the engagement day. We are committed to tie the knot but we have one major problem. No money! We only have 6 months to save up! We committed everything to God and plan the wedding by faith. We set our wedding day on May 12, 2001. We wanted to have our wedding ceremony in a hotel ballroom, as the church we are attending is quite small. The hotel personnel made double booking and we ended up having our wedding ceremony beside the swimming pool. A garden wedding instead. We were allowed to use the pool.

Instead of walking down the aisle, my husband wants me to float on a raft and walk down the aisle since we can use the pool. We tried making our own raft from steel drum but it wasn’t stable. I had fun trying it out and falling into the pool! The hotel artists saw what we were trying to do and offer to make a raft for us. I had a beautiful raft made from Styrofoam! As it cost us nothing. FOC. Praise the Lord. On my wedding day, the raft was attached to rope and being pull by 2 hotel personnel who was all the time in the pool. They volunteered.

Our exchanging of vows took place in the garden beside the swimming pool. We had our wedding dinner in the hotel ballroom. One of our church members offered to pay for the cost of the dinner. If angpow collected not enough, they’ll cover it. If extra, just pay them back the amount paid. At that time our saving was just around RM6000, which we used for our wedding album and tea ceremony. At the end of the day, we had a grand wedding ceremony and more than enough angpow money to cover our wedding cost. All glory to God. One of the tourist (from UK) that stayed in hotel even sent us the photos they took during our wedding!

So, we do not have to worry about money. We just commit everything to the Lord and He will give us the desire of our hearts.


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