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God's timing is the best timing! (written November 1999)



I am marrying one of my closest friends next year! His name is Jeoffrey Thompson and he is twenty-five years old. He graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in 1992.

Here's the testimony:

I have a really good friend from college named Clay McClinton and when we both came back to Dallas after school we became reacquainted. In school, Clay was a part of a singing group called FOCUS (Followers of Christ Unto Salvation) and I had always been a close friend to the members of the group. When they all left school, two of them came to Dallas, and the others dispersed to Atlanta, Navasota, and Houston. After a couple of years they reassembled the group and added two new members - Ray Givens and Jeoff Thompson. Jeoff and Clay were members of the same church (Trinity Temple) and he and Clay later joined Covenant Church, where they met Ray. Jay, the fourth member, joined Covenant when he moved to Dallas last year.

Once I became reacquainted with Clay we all began to hang out together (the guys in the group along with my two best friends and a couple of other folks from Covenant). It was so awesome, because God had brought together this truly dynamic group of brothers and sisters in Christ! We all treasured the friendship and it still is a totally pure and unified group. We all hung out together: movies, dinners, playing games, New Year's Eve one year, New Year's Day the next year…..just a beautiful relationship. This was such a blessing because neither of us had ever shared such a relationship with someone of the opposite sex.

When I moved to Sacramento, I didn't talk to Jeoff much. I didn't really know why, other than the fact that I figured he was watching his long distance budget. We did, however talk on occasion and we'd get together with the rest of our friends, when I would come to visit (which was like every other month).

In the meantime, Clay got engaged to a sister who is also a member of Covenant Church.

When I moved back to Dallas in July, we all went to Six Flags together and had a wonderful time (Fred Hammond and John P. Kee concert). Just hanging out and acting silly and all. I thought nothing of him other than our relationship as brother and sister.

On September 11, we gave an Engagement Party for Clay and his fiancée, Stacie. During the party Jeoff and Clay were asked to sing and Jeoff was trying to get out of doing it. I went outside with him and talked to him about it and he gave in. He was acting all silly, smiling and stuff, and for some reason I didn't even get it at the time. :-) He kept saying things about my ability to influence him and how he couldn't believe it. After the party, while I was cleaning up, he hung around. He was trying to help me wash dishes and all of that and I still didn't get it. He even said something about me being sweet and I was like, "what? Did Jeoff say that? Oh, he's just being Jeoff. You know it's been a long time since we've hung out." After we cleaned up, we all started listening to music and I was telling Stacie about one song that was nice, but she couldn't have it for her wedding because it was 'mine'. I really didn’t have anyone in mind that I would marry, but I knew that whomever it was, I wanted that song played or sung at our wedding!

Jeoff stayed on until I got ready to go and he helped me put my things in the car.

The following weekend, we talked on the phone Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night, like two or three hours each night. We talked about the Word and the season that God is calling us to in our lives and we prayed each night before we got off the phone (which Jeoff normally did anyway). There was something different about these few conversations, though. We were both acting really goofy at times and he said a few times that I was 'interesting,' but he couldn't seem to articulate what that meant.

He told me that he would tell me in time. All along, I knew what 'interesting' meant. And I told him that I thought he was 'interesting' too. When he asked me what that meant to me, I told him that it meant the same that it meant to him. (I know it sounds very elementary but that's just how silly we were those nights). We made plans to go to the Living Vine Bookstore that coming Friday and see a movie afterwards. It was funny because between Sunday night and the time that we talked again, on Wednesday, we missed each other so much (and that was so unusual)!!

On Friday, when we returned from the movie, we sat around and talked at his apartment. Of course I asked him if he had anything to tell me. After struggling through it for thirty minutes he finally told me that he thought I was 'cool' and that he 'cut for me' (that used to be a term of endearment in the South). He was trying to beat around the bush and keep from being mushy. But it was so cute!

I told him that I felt the same way and we talked about how awkward it was to move into this new relationship from the friendship we had known for so long. But no matter how awkward and funny it was we both knew that God had orchestrated the entire thing. He allowed us to get to know one another as brother and sister, he separated us to work on us and prepare us, and then he brought us back together 'for such a time as this!'

From then on, we just knew! There was no formal proposal at that time. The conversation just flowed as we began to talk about our future lives together.

We followed that weekend with a week of consecration, along with a one-day fast for me, and a three-day fast for him, to further seek the Lord's direction.

As a single Christian, I had made the decision several months ago that whenever the time would come when I would consider getting married, I and my potential mate would initially attend some form of pre-engagement counseling before becoming officially engaged or making any wedding plans. On Saturday, November 20th, we met with my Pastor, Karry Wesley, to share more with him about our testimony, receive counsel, prayer, and his blessing. Once that meeting transpired, we were officially engaged!

On Friday, December 31, before leaving for church, Jeoffrey formally proposed and presented me with the most wonderful ring!! Truly a symbol of his love for and commitment to me and as he states, "a representation of my sparkling beauty." :-)

God truly had a blessing in store for the both of us, all along!! Our God is an awesome God!

"Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him........." -- Isaiah 25:9


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