A Real-Life Love Story

My sister Emily and her husband, Jonathan, moved to Kansas this summer. They had previously lived in the same city where we live and nearly every Sunday we would have lunch together after church. Then we would visit awhile and enjoy the "rest day" of the week. I spoke with Emily earlier today and told her that we miss them the most on Sundays. She agreed with me and said Sunday is a family day.
Just in case you don't know Emily and Johnny's story I would love to tell it to you.
Emily met Johnny when Brian and I were dating. Johnny is my husband Brian's brother. Emily and Johnny exchanged phone numbers and e-mail addresses at my wedding and struck up a friendship. Emily was still living at home, taking classes at a local Community College and working as a waitress. Johnny was attending a university about 31/2 hours away. So, they spoke on the phone and emailed every once in a while. For some reason, the communication broke off. They both moved to other relationships. Emily ended up moving to the same city where Jon lived, broke up with her boyfriend and started attending classes at the same University as Jon. But He was still dating someone else. Emily realized she loved Johnny and wanted to marry him. Unfortunately, this is about the same time Johnny thought he wanted to marry someone else. Well, Johnny announced his engagement at our local church and later told his parents that our whole family was very rude to him that day. He said none of us would look at him or even congratulate him after he spoke. Well! We were all dieing inside because Emily's life was being crushed right before our eyes. What could we do about it but pray? And pray we did.
So, Emily moved in with us and continued her education. We loved having her so close as she was learning to trust God with her future. She went on a forty-day fast to help her focus and learn what God would have her do. Well, that semester Johnny was interning in Africa with his family. And having a long-distance break-up.
When Johnny got back he told us he was no longer engaged. He spent the spring and summer trying to figure out what God's will for his life was and spending more time with his family. He started visiting us more often and later told us he was trying to get more chances to spend time with Emily.
They spent the next year dating, became engaged and are now married. Their whole dating/courting/engagement period was about a year but they felt like they had known that they were supposed to marry each other for a long time. They are a great couple and it has been fun watching two people learn each other who we both know so well. And our kids will be double first-cousins. (: