It was impulsive of me, I know, to go out on a limb and write what I did in that postcard after only two dates with Carla. At the time, however, something inside told me that she was the one.
But could I trust that little voice inside? If anything, I should have distrusted it, for I'd only recently broken up with my high school sweetheart. So what did that little voice and I really know?
// Can we trust that voice inside that tells us he or she is the one? //
Carla far exceeded anyone I had imagined would come my way. Spring term had just ended for us at the university we attended when she left to work at a camp for the summer. I can have a pretty one-track mind and so using a blank postcard that a friend of mine had brought back from a recent trip of his to Hawaii, I jotted a note to Carla along with the cryptic note "82884WWBTAOWD" tucked away in the bottom right-hand corner. It looked like a postal code, and no one but me knew that it stood for "We will be there after our wedding day: 8/28/84." Inside I was sure I knew what I wanted, but outside there wasn't a chance I would let anyone know.
"Knowing that you know" isn't as simple as browsing the Internet to match your online personality profile with some pre-selected mate. Instead it's a journey that will challenge your faith, deepen your trust, and refine who you are in the process. You see, this journey isn't only about seeking a yes or no answer to marriage. It's about something much larger, where God's Spirit mysteriously touches our lives and we find God wooing us through our search to "know that we know" into a relationship with Him more beautiful than the very thing you're seeking by picking up this book. That journey is what this book is all about.
