Back in January, as I was planning on moving to the house that flooded, I prayed for a good family to move into our house. We moved out on Saturday and up til Friday morning we did not have anyone to come into the house. That afternoon I got a call from this lady in the picture (SC). She told me that she and her husband would like to come see the house and about an hour later there they were. The next morning I moved out and that afternoon, they moved in.
Now this couple, who I only met once before they had come to look at my house, have been an extreme encouragement to me. I've kind of adopted them as my Korean parents here.
I want to share their story, because they shared their story to encourage me.
SC was about 26 when she got married to her first husband. Although they married in the church, she admits she had no relationship with Christ. She and her first husband just went to church, but their lives weren't lives that bore fruit. When SC was 29, he husband died. (The first day I met SC was at school. She didn't tell me her story then, but she came to give me a hug and told me that her first husband died when she was 29. With tears in her eyes, she told me that God is good and that she's praying for me. I returned to my class with tears in my eyes.) After her husband died, she said life was tough, but because her marriage was bad with her first husband she did not desire to get married again. But the Lord was good and grew her spiritually and one day at the age of 39 asked her to move to China.
MC lived in China most of his married life. His wife and him had 2 beautiful girls who loved living in China. One day, the family was struck with terrible news, MC's wife had cancer. She insisted on staying in China and died there. MC and his girls returned to Korea to bury her and stayed for about a year. His girls having lived in China all their life, longed to go back, and so they packed up and headed back to China.
For 10 years, SC did not want to get married, she didn't even think of it. As soon as she got to China, she felt the Lord giving her a desire to get married again.
MC, after a year and a half of his wife's death, was asked if he would like to be introduced to a nice woman. This nice woman ended up being SC. They are now married, oh man, I forget like 8 or 9 years.
They told me this story together... both had painful stories, but I could tell they both loved each other a lot and was just excited to serve God together. I cried...
There are a lot of people in this world I know that have lost their spouses... I have been loved and cared for by many... but this couple for some reason I felt understood more than those others... because they are overseas and know life overseas... and MC had lost his wife overseas. Koreans aren't very expressive, but these two have been so good to me. If they don't see me at school, she calls me to see if I'm doing okay. One time I was tired and she, like a mother, kept telling me that I need to take care of myself and asked if she could do anything.
I think of their story and know that God is good. I find hope in the fact that He loves his children...
Now that this couple lives in our house, they tell me every time they see me what a legacy we left in our neighborhood. MC tells me how God is so proud and will bless me abundantly for the loss I experienced. He tells me that God remembers the tears of His saints. They are diligently praying for a new spouse for me and they say it's because they understand. :)
Just a little story of some people I met along the way...
