God's Miraculous Answer

By Gina O'Brien

The story begins with a woman who is not interested in meeting a man because in her mind “they are all the same.”  She is happy with her single life, church, job, friends and her beloved cat.  Little did she know, someone had very different plans for her.  The man in the story was not interested in meeting a woman beca

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Mar 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781640880450

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God's

Miraculous

Answer

Gina Ann O'Brien

My Prayer is that my story will inspire those who think the right person doesn’t exist. I encourage you to never give up. Stay faithful to the Lord and remember as He says, Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. Psalm 37:4 AMPC

Sometimes in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairytale.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to James Curtis Stone, the love of my life.

This story is about a woman and a man who were not looking for each other but had been placed together many years before by the Lord’s design; to become one flesh in the future.

Contents

Dedication

MY LIFE BEFORE

THE START

THE BEGINNING

THE MEETING

THE STATEMENT THAT BECAME THE PROMISE

THE FIRST HICCUP

THE BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE

TO THRIVE OR FADE AWAY

THE HICCUP PART 2

THE NEXT PHASE

THE TRIP THAT UNEXPECTANTLY CHANGED

Salutation Credits

MY LIFE BEFORE

This is how their story begins. Let me introduce myself. My name is Gina O’Brien. I have lived in Knoxville since 2005, in the same neighborhood. At one point, my husband had a desire to move away, but the Lord distinctively told me, No you need to stay in this neighborhood of which, I agreed because I didn’t want to move. I knew that, while I didn’t want to leave, I wanted what the Lord wanted for me. I began praying that the Lord would close doors where they should be closed and open others where they should be opened. That He did one hundred percent, we didn’t move. During this time of prayer, the Lord also told me something else; In fact, while I didn’t understand at that time, I would so clearly come to understand some eight years later. He told me, You need to stay in this neighborhood because you will marry a man from the south. I said, What? Of course, that made no sense, but I said, okay never mentioning it to anyone, and quite frankly, forgetting about it.

I became a widow after thirty-five years of marriage on Thanksgiving Day, 2015. I had just been through a lengthy illness with my husband. My role had changed from a wife to a caregiver during those years. I actually lost the man I had married several years before his physical body went home to be with the Lord. After some time had passed, the last thing on my mind was meeting someone. I’d been through thirty-five years of marriage and didn’t want to be faced with the emotional ups and downs that a committed marriage entails. At that point in my life, I thought it would be easier to be alone with my two cats, my fantastic job, good friends and a wonderful church. What more could I need? While everyone was telling me to, stay open and see what happens, while I said yes, I wasn’t really thinking about meeting anyone. Needless to say, the Lord had other plans for my life and it would take a drastic change in the year to come.

THE START

CHAPTER 1

Fast forward to February 2016. I met a lady at work, with whom I would be having a lot of interaction with, named Erika Fields. She and I became fast friends. She is a very devoted Christian; young, beautiful, full of energy and had a great husband whom she just adored. On top of all that, while she was young in age, she also had the maturity of a forty-year-old. While we interacted on a daily work basis, usually several times in one day, we began to talk of other things outside of work, as well. Before I knew it, the year had almost passed by. During this time, I began to pray if the Lord had someone He wanted me to meet. This man would have to pass the list of ten qualities I had written down before I would even consider meeting him. I felt this was my chance to be picky about who I would be with. If someone was out there, I would go into the relationship with eyes wide open for the first time in my life. I was looking for red flags, that was for sure. At this point in my life, I didn’t want to make a mistake. Of course, not expecting this person to be perfect; however, in my mind, it would be a check