Vino & Marsha

Our first acquaintance occurred in 2012, when we were both are teenagers and serving at church.
This condition made us spent a lot of times together. And since we grew up in the same community,
we can barely remember when we got so close until it drew us to some kind of special relationship.

At the time, we were still so young and didn't have a proper knowledge of relationships or such things.
The closeness that existed in between just created an issue for us. It got worse until grew into a conflict. We even decided not to be friend anymore. Despite our situation we still remain in the same circle. Later on, we realized that the thing we did just made the atmosphere so weird.

We decide that we don’t want to be such a stumbling block for everyone. We chose to forgive each other, then got reconciled but at the same time agreed that special relationship is not our thing. This state just made our friendship way better. We then had built a friendship. As the years went by, we found a figure who we admire and so dear to our heart. We have this bond where we could really comfortable just to be who we truly are. But what happened in the past really hold us back from every probability to a romantic way.

When the pandemic hit, the intensity of our communication became higher. It made us started to checked our heart about what is really going on. Various thought take place, such as whether we were just carried away by temporary feelings and emotions. We asked God. What He wants to create with all these feelings and closeness between us, what story He intend to tell through us. Because based on our sense, it is quite impossible for us to enter a relationship.

Everything was so blurred at that time. But we were given a peace. We felt that God is giving us a chance to become a thing, just if we have the courage to walk with Him in this journey. We discovered the current situation is very different from our past. Even no guarantee of what is going to happened later, in January 2021 with faith we took a commitment to take this relationship to a more serious level and build a Christ-centered kind of relationship.

Though we have known each other for quite long time, still, there are a lot of adjustments needed and processes we have to go through. But this is what we always believe, God brought us this far not to leave us but to show us His eternal grace and mercy. When we put God as the foundation and center of our relationship, we will always be able to endure all things.