Thank you Cliff for allowing me to write the love story of you & your Beautiful wife! I found this just tear jerking ❤️
There was a time in my life when my one true love was wine and spirits. I mean I knew drinking wasn't good for me & I played around with the thought of stopping every once in a while, but never enough for anything to stick. I wasn't the AA type of guy, I didn't feel the need to express my problems with a group of people. I didn't think that would be my route to recovery if I ever decided to stop. What I didn't know was that I was right. One day I was driving, on my way to take myself fishing. I had a 12 pack of Bud Light in my ice chest in the trunk. As I was driving I couldn't wait to pop a can open & feel that cold refreshing taste.
As I drove I passed a church tent revival. I slowed down for no particular reason & laughed to myself. I guess I caught them in a moment. Watching them as they were running & jumping as I was passing. I've heard that was called catching the holy spirit or something like that. A few minutes later I heard a loud POP!! I thought to myself, what the hell is happening? What was happening was my back tire blew out! Just inches from this damn revival. The last thing I wanted to do was be surrounded by church people. I was not for this today, but to make it worse I was stuck in a ditch!
About 4 guys came approaching me from the church tent. "This is the last thing I need!" I thought to myself again in a huff. I'm not a atheist or anything like that, I just never much thought of myself as a highly spiritual man. The guys surrounded me & offered me assistance & they told me to go inside the tent church to wait. I was hesitant but I went on in. When I went in, there was a woman at the alter praying. I knelt down beside her, because at that moment I felt the need to give thanks because my truck was being fixed & it definitely felt like a huge miracle. After about three or four seconds the woman looked up at me & said with an excited voice. "You must be him!"
I looked at her & said "him, who? Ma'am & she simply replied you, you are the husband God said he was going to send me. As far as I know was at that moment I blacked out & when I came to I was in a whole nother church; and the woman that told me I was to be her husband told me that after she said that, I caught the holy ghost & took off running & praising the lord. She said I used so much energy, I blacked out & the men who fixed my truck brought me to the other church I woke up in 3hrs later.
It didn't take me long to realize that what this woman was saying was the truth. I felt it in my spirit. I immediately went to my truck & began dumping out the cans of beer in my truck. The Pastor approached & asked me what I was doing. I told him that I had an overwhelming feeling to get rid of all this beer! I told him that I felt as if God himself took the taste out of my mouth & that I'm going to marry that woman in there. So Jodie, Amanda & I have been married for 15yrs to this day & I never drank again!
Thank you Cliff again for allowing me to share such a beautiful love story!
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