Page 79: Ryan and MJ Otto
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Page 79 of the unfolding is the story of Ryan and MJ Otto. |
| 0:05.2 | I was looking for this perfect person that I could never find, but it was all produced out of anxiety of fear of getting it wrong. |
| 0:12.2 | And I think there was a fear of maybe making the same mistakes that my mom and dad did. |
| 0:18.3 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:21.6 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:24.6 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:31.6 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:45.4 | Hi, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:49.8 | Whenever I'm getting to know a couple, I love to hear how they met. |
| 0:53.5 | There's just something sweet about a story of falling in love. |
| 0:55.6 | That had been Ryan Otto's dream. |
| 0:59.9 | He is the first to admit that he loved the idea of a fairy tale romance. But at the same time, he was so afraid of making a mistake, choosing the quote-unquote wrong person, so afraid that he couldn't go on a date, let alone commit to love someone. So it was easier to just |
| 1:13.6 | stay single. My mom and dad were high school sweethearts and they went to college together and then |
| 1:19.9 | freshman year I happened. And so I was definitely a mistake in the world in the world's eyes, |
| 1:26.6 | but definitely a plan in God's eyes and but growing up I |
| 1:30.3 | was raised by my grandparents a lot and my mom and dad my dad works for John Deere and kind of lives |
| 1:37.2 | has traveled all over and so um just kind of growing up like with this dream of falling in love |
| 1:44.0 | I remember you you know, watching |
| 1:45.5 | Disney movies probably put this as well, but just wanting to fall in love and find that perfect |
| 1:50.4 | person and to really have a family because I didn't know what that was like. I have brothers and sisters |
| 1:56.0 | now, but they're all half brothers and sisters and I just, you know, going to friends' houses. I never |
| 2:00.0 | knew what it was like |
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