The day after my birthday, a random guy commented on my anime blog because he wanted to meet people who loved God and anime. He was also starting a Christian anime blog, and he wanted to meet people in that community. He started commenting on every post I wrote and I stared thinking he was pretty weird. I got to know this guy better through an online chat room for the Christian anime community. I realized that I loved his heart for God and his love for anime. There were no guys in the world like him. This random guy, another dude friend, a chick friend and I started video calling almost every day over the summer because we loved each other’s blogs and we wanted to get to know each other better. We were all brothers and sisters in Christ already so I wasn’t worried at all.
As I got to know him more and more, I fell in love with him and I realized that he was the man I wanted to marry. I didn’t care that he was on the internet or that I had never seen him in the same room before. I knew that God had created a beautiful human being in him, and I wasn’t going to quiet my heart. I prayed long and hard about him and I decided that if we were meant to be, God was going to make it work. I was not going to tell him my deep feelings for him. I also had no idea if he liked me in the first place!
When I started Corban University, we were video calling one day and he admitted to me that he had been fasting asking God to reveal to him if a certain girl was to be his wife or not.
I freaked out.
THERE WAS ANOTHER WOMAN.
I was doomed. I told him that I was going to be right back and I ran to the corner of my dorm room and started crying to my roommate. I did not know that he could hear everything I was saying. I came back to the video call unaware that he knew I had feelings for him. He pretended like he didn’t know, but eventually he admitted that he had been fasting to see if I was supposed to be his wife or not. We soon decided that God wanted us to be partners. I knew that alongside him, we could serve God so much better then alone.
Many people gave me harsh looks and talkings because this was a guy I met on the internet and I had never been in the same room with him before. But, I knew I was doing what God wanted me to do. God wanted us to be together no matter how weird or “dangerous” it may seem to skeptical humans. I did cry when I felt judged by other people. It was uncomfortable to know that people disproved of my love. The biggest reason I decided to continue my dating relationship with full force was because God approved and my parents approved. They dated long distance, so they gave me full permission to follow my heart.
We dated for three months never having any physical contact because we lived thousands of miles away. He was in Tennesseem and I was in Oregon. We were three hours time zones apart, so we had to be careful when we scheduled video calls. We got to know each other’s hearts without have any temptation physically. It was the healthiest thing for our relationship. But we both knew that we had to meet face to face if we ever hoped to actually get married one day. The big problem was that he had no money to pay for a trip to my home in Hawaii over Christmas break.
One day God told him that he was going to provide the money for him to come see me, so we both sat and waited. Like he promised, he had extra money left over from his scholarships that he was able to use to buy a plane ticket there and back from Hawaii. God said it was time for us to meet face to face.
After three months of dating, I picked him up from the airport. I saw him, his back turned to me, and I jumped on his back laughing and crying and whispering, “I got you!”
Now I can hold his hand. He can put his arm around me. My cats love the way he smells. (so do I…) My little sisters love to play with him. We watch anime together every night! Having him stay with me and my family for ten days has shown me that this is a man I would love to marry, and we both decided that we are going to pursue marriage and patiently wait for God to tell us when. As I write this, he is still at my house. We’ve already exchanged Christmas presents. I got him a Japanese batman shirt, and he commissioned his friend to draw the anime couple that we strive to be like on a piece of wood. We go to the beach and play in the water, jumping off of cliffs. We spend long nights talking about doctrine and culture differences. We already knew who each other were, but being in the same room with him makes our connection so much deeper.
His name is Micah, which is funny because my name is Hannah, and those are the two most popular names at Corban University. I have fallen in love with a boy I met on a blog, and I pray God will let me spend the rest of my life with him. I found the best Az, my Boaz.
