He won’t buy the cow if he’s getting the milk for free. Most of us have heard this or some similar advice growing up. Advice from your loved ones was to wait until marriage, but society paints a different picture. If you go by television and radio, it’s not looking good for the home team, but I have proof that true love is worth the wait. Jeff and Sunni are one year into forever, and they did not only choose to wait to marry each other, but they also decided to wait, period.

There I was sitting on a Puerto Rican beach. The sky was blue, the waves were high, and the breeze was plentiful. Everything was perfect, and I was sitting there with tears streaming down my face. The beach chair next to me was empty, and it wasn’t supposed to be. None of this was as we planned it, and all I could do was pray a lot and cry a little in the midst of paradise. I’d been praying for old time religion, the kind I witnessed in my grandparents, parents and many of th