{"id":25609,"date":"2018-09-16T22:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T03:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=25609"},"modified":"2019-08-25T20:19:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T01:19:41","slug":"at-times-we-have-to-have-faith-and-wait-for-the-day-when-well-see-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=25609","title":{"rendered":"At times, we have to just wait for the day when we\u2019ll see the fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sometimes your heart just knows things. Have you ever known from the beginning that you were going to love someone? Have you ever believed — without evidence — that a relationship would be forever?<\/p>\n

I’m fascinated by stories of love at first sight, partly because I’ve experienced it myself and partly because such stories validate my need to believe that love can conquer unexpected obstacles.<\/p>\n

Sunday evening, a Reddit user going by the name rhysoneill posted this photo and his story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first time I visited my girlfiend (now wife) in college I bought a peach tree from a local nursery and told her, \u2018Someday we will eat peaches from it years from now, because we will still be together,\u2019\u201d he wrote. \u201cWell, it worked better than I planned. Here is our son eating a peach from that very tree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Six years ago, I wrote about<\/a> one of my favorite examples of love at first sight. The story is told in detail on an episode of This American Life. At a convention center, there were two conventions going on. John Perry Barlow was a computer nerd at a convention for NeXT software developers.\u00a0Cynthia Horner was a sophisticated psychiatrist at a medical convention.<\/p>\n

Barlow tells the story of seeing Horner for the first time — and knowing that he was seeing someone he somehow already knew. To hear their story, go to this link<\/a> and scroll down to\u00a0Act Three \u2014 \u201cWhen Worlds Collide\u201d\u2014 to listen.<\/p>\n

I’ve related before how I once saw a photo of a woman and experienced the oddest sensation of knowing her deeply, even though I knew absolutely nothing about her. It wasn’t just about her looks or anything like that. It was some odd intuition — some gut feeling — and I remember saying out loud, “I’m going to marry that woman.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It wasn’t a prediction. It wasn’t a wish. Something in my mind was simply stating what calmly seemed like something I already knew.<\/p>\n

Have I married her? No, but I did fall in love with her. How did something in my gut know I would care about her — and want her in this way — with absolutely no evidence? I have no idea. I just know it was very real.<\/p>\n

There are times our gut feelings are wrong. There are times when we’re disappointed. But there are also times when something inside you whispers, “This is right,”<\/em> and it knows what it’s talking about.<\/p>\n

Sometimes we need to trust that voice. Sometimes it’s smarter than our minds are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes your heart just knows things. Have you ever known from the beginning that you were going to love someone? Have you ever believed — without evidence — that a relationship would be forever? I’m fascinated by stories of love at first sight, partly because I’ve experienced it myself and partly because such stories validate Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-6F3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25609"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30015,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions\/30015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}