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​alastair leung

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It was the last day of the 2006 Summer Youth Conference in Toronto, and all were gathered in a brothers house.  A girl named Melody was sitting on the stairs, talking with a friend of hers.  Along came a boy named Alastair, who walked by to say hello and asked how the conference was for her ... who would've known 8 years later they would be getting married?

 

Over the course of the past decade, Alastair had the fine pleasure of seeking the Lord to see what the whole deal behind marriage was about.  All the while, keeping in touch with that girl he said hello to on the stairs.  Over the years they would check up on one another and share good fellowship.  Slowly, they grew to be good friends, though Alastair, being a little late to the party, didn't quite catch on to the fact that Melody might have liked him through all the past four years.

 

Near mid 2012, things became a little more apparent that they weren't quite exactly on the same page so they agreed to stop talking for the time being.

 

As a year of silence passed by, Alastair had the opportunity to seek the Lord more specifically about the "who" in marriage.  Slowly he realized that Melody was a great sister who loved to care for the youth group, her own family and above all - who loved the Lord.  In short, she was a good fit.

 

After going back and forth between the Lord and himself, the 2013 Harvey Cedars conference rolled around and he knew he would see her there.  It was there, cast on a setting of a slightly sandy board walk against the pastel painted sky, during the after glow of beautiful sunset, with a warm breeze brushing past her face that ... nothing happened (haha, got you! You thought he asked her out didn't you?).  It wasn't till the bus ride back from Harvey Cedars that Alastair had a chance to pray with a few of the brothers that were with him about the matter.  The next morning at 7am, while on the bus as the sun rose, Alastair woke up to the sight of one of his dear brothers staring him in the face waiting to ask him "WELL? DID YOU HEAR FROM THE LORD?", to which he jokingly replied "Yep! Not going to do anything about it!"  After his dear brother dropped his jaw in shock, Alastair calmly told him "I'm kidding, I think I already had my answer."  His dear brother smiled at him and left as Alastair began to type a simple text message to Melody telling her that he had something he'd like to talk to her about later that night, and whether she'd be free to discuss over Facetime.  

 

As the nine longest hours of his life past by from the time of her reply to them actually talking, he spent the majority of them looking to the Lord for the words to say.  

 

On October 14, 2013 he asked Melody over facetime, whether she would be willing to pray about having a relationship with him.  She cried. He had no idea what to do.  Eventually she said yes, she'd be willing to pray.

 

On October 22, 2013 she had her answer for him and said she'd be willing to commit herself into a relationship with him.

 

Knowing that she was it, he started looking for a ring (not because of that song Beyonce sang, but because he knew this was from the Lord). 

 

On her trip to visit Toronto in November 28, on the first full day they had together, he took her for a walk in his favorite park.  It was there, after a slightly strenuous walk up some slippery ice and snow covered hills that he looked for a place to sit, the first bench was covered in ice and didn't look too pleasant sit on, so they kept walking and found a log.  They sat on it, and while Alastair so carefully asked to take a picture with her, instead of pulling out his camera, he pulled out a ring to propose.  

 

And.... she said yes!
Phew. 

 

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