What Does Her Father Do?

My lovely wife and I are soon coming up on our 26th year of the first date. It was not a blind date , I did see her picture before going out . But it was set up by my younger sister.  I still recall that my dating life had come to the point that I was sure of joining a monastery . Prepared to put on the monk habit , just kidding , but it was not going well .

So my sister starts talking to me at the first of October of a girl she had met at the Kingstec Tech Campus in her Secretarial course. Needless to say I was a bit skeptical . Generally it is never a good thing to be set up on a date by a sibling because if things go bad , well paint the picture . But she kept talking this girl up and how much she thought we would hit it off . So getting my interest , I relented and said sure but first no date with no picture .

So she relayed this to my future wife and she gave her a  a couple of pictures. Needless to say the nerves were on edge as I waited for my sister to get home from school. Would she be attractive or was my sister selling me a bit of snake oil. She produced a couple of pics and watched and waited for my reaction. Well it is obvious that I thought she was pretty. The first thing I noticed was her eyes , very beautiful. Plus everything else was A one . Anyway I told my sister , sure she could go a head and set up a date.

Then my sister said to me , there was one other thing. This was puzzling . So I asked her what this was about . She then told me I should know what her father did . She wanted me to guess. Figuring it had to be something that  would be worrisome for the guy who was going out on a date with this mans daughter the first thing in my head was Policeman. Nope was the sisters answer. It had to be something along those lines. Next answer ,  he had to be in the military. Nope. At this  point I was a bit baffled .

Seeing that I was stumped , my sister looks at me and with a serious tone tells me it is worse than either a Policeman or Military . Then she revealed what he did . Yes it was far worse , he was a .....drum roll ....a Baptist Minster . I guess my sister figured that he had a more intimidating individual in his corner , God.

Well even though I was by no means a Christian at this point in my life, I figured why not and as they say the rest is history. Best decision of my life.  I truly found a good thing , with a little help form my sis , and ultimately God's sovereign hand guiding all.


[22] He who finds a wife finds a good thing
and obtains favor from the LORD.
 (Proverbs 18:22 ESV)