Perfect One For Me

Some days I just know all over again that I'm marrying the right man.

I suppose that's a good thing, right? :)
But in all seriousness, I do. I haven't doubted whether I should be with Lucas or not, but some days, I just get hit by the thought, You are so the right man for me.
Today was one of those days.

Lucas has been in Kenya for the last two weeks and has two more to go. (You can read his blog here). The decrease in communication has been extremely hard; I've struggled to adjust to writing long emails about my day and then waiting for long emails back from him and then only hearing his voice once or twice a week.

But this morning he called me bright and early at 6:30 am. Of course, on the day I don't have class until 11:00 am, but I was still ecstatic to hear from him, it didn't matter. We talked for two and a half hours and I loved catching up and hearing about his time in Kenya.

And hearing about how his heart hurt for the North American church.
And how his heart was burdened.
And how we're missing the mark.
And how the pain around him made his heart hurt too.

I love it that his heart hurts and breaks for the brokenness in this world. I love it that he gets frustrated when our churches spend more money on our new buildings, facilities, carpets and coffee hours than on the least of these. I love it that he's so unwilling to compromise what he reads in Scripture just because our culture has accepted it and said its okay. Yes, even when our Christian culture has said its okay.

I'm so encouraged knowing that this man's heart beats not for the things of this world. 

Yup, I definitely miss him and am counting down days until we can Skype again and not have a seven second delay (true story!), but I'm also so grateful that he's exactly where he should be right at this moment.