Does the Bible tell us exactly who to marry?

When I made my decision to enroll and attend RIT in Rochester, NY, I prayed to our God to lead me to my future bride at RIT if that was God's will. Three months later, I met a young woman at dinner time less than a day after arriving at RIT for the winter quarter of 1978-79 as a transfer student from Portland, Oregon. As time progressed that quarter, I got to know her much better as friends whenever we had the chance to cross each other paths and we discovered a lot in common as time went on, even though she was dating someone else. A few days after I returned to RIT after my 6-month work co-op in San Jose, California in late 1980, I met up with same girl at a roller skating party away from campus. When I discovered that she wasn't dating anyone, I grabbed an opportunity to start dating her and to get to know each other much better. The very next morning, we discovered to find we had the same class to our surprise and opted to study together. I tutored her with her required computer course during the summer of '81 while I was on co-op in another town nearby. Unfortunately, we did not have much time together the following year due to our vastly different course-load schedules and different majors. I moved on to Austin, TX for employment with a major company after I graduated from RIT in spring of 1982. In looking back to my college days just before Christmas of 1982, I realized that I had missed the girl I dated at RIT dearly and sent her a short note as a 'seed of faith'. On the evening after Christmas of 1982, Lynda called me and we hit off as if we had not drifted apart at all. She was able to fly down to visit me in Round Rock, TX during her spring break from RIT in late February '83. I grabbed this opportunity to propose to her in marriage before she returned to RIT. She said 'Yes' without any questions! We were married in September 1983 at her parents' church in Abington, PA.

I am married to Steve, a Christian man for 37 years. In 1978, we were students in different majors in Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. We were friends. I dated him and several male students there. My husband was the only one male student I dated who had Christian books and a Bible at his apartment on college campus. It was not usual. In February of 1983, I asked Jesus "Is he the right man?". He said, "Yes". Then, I decided to ask Jesus this same question again to make sure. He said, "Yes". Several days later, I accepted my boyfriend's proposal immediately because of Jesus' answers. My husband was very surprised as I did not have a second thought or did not request for more time to think. Seven months later, we had a Christian wedding at Abington Presbyterian Church (it was founded in 1714) in Abington, Pennsylvania on September 17, 1983.