It was a day like any other at Target Distribution Communications, I was seating in my gray and purple cubicle plugging away. Amy R. was going around introducing her new direct report. I could hear the commotion coming from a couple rows away. To be honest I didn’t really care about new team members, I was in a team of 99% diverse women. Sarah claims that we had met in our previous job, but that is a story you have to ask her about because I cant remember.

The next thing I knew Sarah and Amy were outside my cube, and she introduced us. I thought “Oh happy day, another friend my age!” The next day Stacey A. and I decided we wanted to get to know the new girl, we asked her if she wanted coffee and she said “No Thanks” The day after we asked if she wanted breakfast and she again said no again.

Regardless, I was going to be nice to the new girl and try to help her make Minnesota home. I know how badly it stinks to be new in a big city and not knowing anybody. I stetted up a meeting to take her around downtown and show her a where she could get food and coffee. We walked around for a while and I got us lost, what’s new right.

I wasn’t planning on falling in love with Sarah, it just happened. I remember one night, long time after we met telling my self “Rafa? Don’t you go and fall for Sarah” well, sadly I was talking to myself too late. I prayed a lot and asked God to tell me what to do about my feelings and to help me clarify them.

I decided to tell Sarah how I felt, and let God and her decide what would happen. After that I prayed almost every day about it. First I would ask that Sarah would feel the same way I felt for her, then for patience and lastly for strength to accept if the Lord didn’t mean her for me. I couldn’t have asked for my story to be written any differently.

With time Sarah became my friend, my friend became my best friend and my best friend is soon to become my wife.