Awestruck

As the plane touched down my eyes welled with tears and my heart overflowed with love, excitement, and anticipation.  I could smell the familiar sent of home lingering in the air.  The humidity caressed my skin and wrapped me in comforting warmth.
I knew that every turn that led me here was divinely orchestrated to bring us together.  As I unboarded the plane, I searched for you.  As I grabbed my luggage, I searched for you.  As I boarded the transfer bus, I searched for you.   I could feel you close.  I've always felt you close, but this time I felt like in any moment I could turn around and hug you.  And in fact I've felt that many times before.  But THIS time...this time was different.  Your essence permeated my entire being.  I was in a state of euphoria. Calm, blissful, peaceful, HOME.
I left the restroom at the pit-stop halfway to the resort.  I placed my hands on the stone railing of the gift shop bar, peering out into the Sea.  I closed my eyes for a moment and breathed in the salty air.  I saw your beautiful smiling face, playfully looking up at me while you splashed around in the water as a carefree child.  A smile swept across my face.  Slowly opening my eyes, I exhaled a deep sigh of contentment.  I was HOME.  My hands slowly slid off of the stone railing as I turned around, still in a dreamy place, only to be fully awakened when I accidentally bumped into the gorgeous stranger walking past me.
"Oh pardon me-" I instinctively began to say.  My words cut short as my breath was taken away.  My jaw dropped, and I blinked my eyes trying to confirm that I was indeed seeing what I thought I was seeing.
"Oh, Hi" I managed to muster through my giant grin.
"Wow. Hi" hearing your voice was God's music to my ears.  Seeing your face light up as mine was like seeing the 8th natural wonder.
Awestruck.
I almost fell to my knees right there to Praise the Lord.  
But instead we hugged.  We hugged like there was never any time between us.  Because there never was.  And there never will be. And inside of your embrace I Praised the Lord.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
OUR GLORIOUS GOD, THANK YOU!
"Fancy meeting you here." you practically giggled.
"Fancy Indeed." my cheeks already sore from excitement.

The bus driver called for every one to load up.
​"That's me." we both said simultaneously.   
"You're staying at Couples? You were on this bus the whole time?" The questions I asked felt rhetorical.
"Yea, I got right on and was sitting in the back... didn't feel like explaining to everyone why I was travelling alone to a Couples Resort."
"Alone?  ....I'm also travelling alone...May I ask why?"
"God intervened.  You?"
"Same."
​We both beamed.
"I'll travel with you."
"Id love that."
Our shoulders grazed each other as we sauntered to the bus, a thousand words exchanged between our gaze.  Once we were seated it only felt natural to reach for your hand.  I reached for my Red Stripe instead.
"Delicious" I said, savoring the taste and the sweat from the glass bottle dripped on my bare legs.
"Delicious indeed" you replied reaching for your beer.  You raised your glass and I responded in kind.
"Cheers!" we celebrated in unison as our glasses clinked, sweat dripping onto both of our bare legs, alerting us to the fact that they were touching.  Neither of us moved.
The entire remainder of the ride was spent between absorbing the beauty of your soul, taking in the beauty of the land, being awestruck by God's awesome love and power, and relentlessnessly Praising the Lord.