So I told you I've been married for about six years, and kind of a little bit of our story is we were dating,

and I really wanted to tell Maddie that I loved her for the first time, but I was very nervous.

It's that scene in the movie that we've all watched. Maybe you've seen it play out in your own life.

Your heart is pounding. You're planning on saying it, you walk up to

her, and you're like, Maddie, I got to tell you something. And she's like, what do you got to tell

me? And you say, your parents are out of toilet paper in their spare bathroom. Because you get so

nervous. And so, long story short, my friends and I, Maddie's friends and her,

we all decide to take this group trip during that summer, our first summer together, to

Hawaii. Okay, now this sounds very bougie. I promise it was a group on, all right? It was very

cost effective. And we go to Hawaii, and I'm picturing, man, what better place to tell the woman of your dreams that you love her than in Hawaii?

Okay?

I'm picturing me surfing up on a surfboard.

Coconut's in both hands.

You know, acoustic music in the background.

And what actually ended up happening is we get to Hawaii and I'm

sleeping on a little pullout couch. It's like our second morning there. And about five o'clock in the

morning, I wake up to the sound of the glass door at the back part of our Airbnb opening up.

And I look over and I see my girlfriend Maddie walking towards the ocean.

And so I take off running. I jump out of this little pull-out couch, take off running after her,

make sure she's okay. And she starts telling me, she says, oh, I ate some fish last night,

and I think it's not settling well. I just needed some fresh air. And it was like I heard

the audible voice of the Lord say, this is your time. And so we start walking down the beach and it's

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