God Already Knew
By David McGan
[reprinted from Page 122-123 of the book, “Singing
News Presents Praise Reports]
I walked into
the house from a business trip in early December of 2004. There, in a note on my recliner, was the
message from my wife of almost 32 years that she had left me. This couldn't be happening. After all, our marriage was perfect; we were
the model couple! But no matter how or
what I tried to salvage our marriage, nothing worked, and the divorce became
final 5 months later.
Throughout it
all -- the loneliness, despair, questions, and grief -- I was given an even
stronger faith that God is in control.
My close friends and my church family told me that God had something
even better in store for me. And I found a peace that assured me that was true.
So, I waited on God.
At the same
time, unknown to me, a lady who lost her husband to cancer in October of 2003
was facing the same type of despair, was questioning why God would take her
husband. But ultimately she prayed that
if it be His will, God would send her a Christian husband. She's Catholic -- very strong in her faith --
but she neglected to specifically pray for a Catholic husband.
We met at a
Christian Singles Dance in October 2005. I was only there to help a fellow
Sunday School classmate get the organization started off. She was there with her widowed sister-in-law,
thinking maybe that her sister-in-law might meet someone, but not having the
least amount of interest in looking for someone herself.
It turns out
we both work at the same company, so she thought at least we could talk at the
dance, even though in her mind we had absolutely nothing in common.
As time went
on, we began to find that we had more in common than she thought. Our love began to grow, but it took her a
little while to say her suitable goodbyes to her husband and finally decide
that she had come to love me deeply. In
October of 2006, I asked her to marry me, and she said "Yes.”
We've talked
about it extensively; she and I both feel that there were too many
"coincidental" parallels in our 
lives, that it had to be
God's Hand, and His Plan, that resulted in His bringing us together. A song on
a Hoppers album probably says it best -- and has ministered to me greatly since
I first heard it. The song? “God Already Knew.”
We were
married in April 2007, by her priest, had our reception at my Baptist church,
and spent 12 days in
Today, we
worship regularly together -- and have since we started dating. She goes to
Sunday School and Church with me, and I go to Mass with her.
My main desire
through it all has been that I could be a witness to others. And God has even granted that. People have told me that I handled the whole
situation much more positively than they could. I tell them that it was
God. A work colleague recently said how
much he admired my Christian witness through it all. So God granted my desire -- He Already Knew.
God has been
so good to me. We don't always understand the direction our lives take, but
I've come through this totally convinced that He's a Great God, and I could do
no better than to just place my life and future totally in His Hands. That's
where my wife and I are now.
David McGan lives
with his wife, Mary Jane, in Corydon,
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other “Praise Reports,”
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