How hard headed are we?  I know we've been told ‘never tell God no’.  Four months ago I was lying in a bed awaiting my Rehab tech to come and start my morning torture.  I had just heard from my ex-wife who was fussing at me.  I then made the momentous statement “God, I never want to get married again.”

Well, Sunday January 22, 2012, God made a liar out of me again.  I married a lady that God has given as the greatest gift, short of salvation, that He has ever given me.  One of my dear friends served as my best man.  He and another gentleman came from my home area and my Board of Directors for Inmate Family Ministry.  My best man told me Monday morning that this lady is exactly who I have been needing.  Both men have seen me through my previous marriages.

Most of you know that I have written a novel.  Several of you have said that the heroine, Kerah, was a melding of the woman I have always been seeking.  But there were several other traits that they could not identify.

When I met her, after 300 hours plus on the phone, we were at her Church.  I drove up to a guest parking slot.  And even though the picture I had to go on was not really plain but neither was mine, I recognized her through the glass doors, instantly.  And the missing ingredient was the Holy Spirit.  And when she walked out, I knew I would be spending the rest of my life with her.

I know the time was short for me to propose to her, but we both knew that while I had said I would never get married again,  we were both exactly what we had asked God to provide.

I am writing so that the majority of my friends will know that I knew what I was doing.  I have had three women in my life: Mother and 2 wives.  When I met Donna, I became happier than I have ever been before.  I even smile now.  In the past I had to consciously think smile.  Now a smile is there more times than not and I don’t even think about it.

One final thing, God told me, when He called me to Ministry, that in the ‘last days’ I would have something important to do.  I now know that God has given me this sweet, sensitive and loving woman so that she is part of that prophesy directly from God to me.  Donna is so filled with the ‘Holy Ghost’ that she is my steering through the life and ministry we have been called to.

Father, I do not know how to say thank you anymore than I have.  I am already in your debt for my salvation, through your Son.  But when I am in your perfect will and keeping Donna’s strength next to me, I can fulfill Your Call on my life.