Malik Brookins

I was so scared.

And there's such a truth that you're talking about when we confess with our mouths.

Because I remember when I brought it to you, it was just in such vulnerability and such honesty that I was just like, hey...

This is what is still happening.

And I'm tired of it.

Like I'm sick of this.

It felt like a wilderness season that I could not get out of.

And I was just so anxious.

I was just so afraid.

I was just so fearful.

And I don't know, it's a feeling when you bring it to the light that there's affirmation and encouragement that I remember you spoke over me.

because of the wisdom and knowledge of who Jesus Christ is to you and what he's given you in your life and what you've gone through.

And something that I took from that conversation was it's so easy.

It's so easy to bottle everything up and stay in anxiousness and fear rather than speak.

But the thing that I love about what we have stewarded in our relationship is we've made each other a safe place.

Yes, we were for sure dating for a purpose.

And I think that was a really prominent question that we asked during our dating season and like really figuring out, OK, we're not just dating each other because we look really good and we're attracted to each other.

But like, why are we actually together?

And we knew from the moment we started dating that hell was trembling.

Hell was trembling because of what was about to come through this union.