I'd like to start off by saying thank you to God, the origin of life, and True Parents, the origin of the restored lineage. If not for God and True Parents, I wouldn’t be able to share life with my wonderful match. To be honest, I was always frightened and reluctant to even imagine getting matched. The thought of being with someone you don’t know at all, for the rest of your life, seemed more or less out of the question for me. Shortly before I graduated high school, True Parents gave permission for parents to match their children. Immediately I thought, "Wow, I get to pick my own spouse now, that’s awesome." So much for that idea!

I'd like to explain how unexpected NanYoung’s and my matching was to me. I went to STF after high school, however, I was determined to stay for only 4 months. "I wasn’t going to get brainwashed," I told myself. Here I am now going into the last 4 or 5 months of my second year on STF. It wasn’t really until the very end of first year, that I started preparing for the matching. My dad was praying for several families about the matching (potentials I guess you would call it), and so I began a prayer condition as well. Shortly after, I began an exercise condition, because I wanted to offer a healthy, fit body for my spouse. Right before I was matched with NanYoung, I had done a 3 day fast.

At about the end of the first year of STF, I had a dream that I was in the hospital waiting for a nurse to bring us the baby my wife had borne. In that dream my wife was NanYoung. I didn’t know her at all at the time. I thought this dream was really crazy, and I didn’t tell anyone about it. When finally the time came that my dad began talking to other families, I told him the dream, just to see what he thought of it. At that time he wasn’t really talking to the Hongs, but he had met NanYoung at church and at our house for Thanksgiving when a group came over from the CARP center. He wrote an email to Rev. Hong and didn’t hear back for a while, and finally heard back that the Hongs were pretty far into the matching process with another family. I was sure at that time that the dream I had was just some crazy, random dream.

My dad had little contact with the Hongs at that point, but of the little communication, he was told Mrs. Hong would be at the next Colorado workshop (January, 2003). My dad had asked Mrs. Hong if she could meet me there. I met her and talked very little with her. Right before the workshop, my dad sent a formal proposal to the Hongs, so Mrs. Hong had seen it before she got to Colorado. I hadn’t really understood the situation at that point.

After that workshop everyone had about 8 days off, and during that time I did a 3 day fast. The first night, my best friend (basically a brother to me, Tongil Moran) had a dream that NanYoung and I were matched. The second night I had a dream that NanYoung and I were matched. And the third day, Rev. Schanker called my house and I happened to pick up the phone. He told me that he had been in contact with the Hongs and that they were asking him and also Dr. Yang, about the level of faith of my family, and myself. Rev. Schanker continued with a short interview, that he would relay back to the Hongs. He indicated that the Hongs were strongly asking for his advice, but that he didn’t want to be the one to ultimately decide someone else’s match.

On January 19th, which was a Sunday, my dad did a fast, during which the Hongs called to say that it was a Match. I am deeply grateful to God and to the Hongs and to my own parents, for this blessing I have received.

G.

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