Christy and I married on July 27, 2002. We grew up across the street from on another in Escondido, CA. Her parents owned a nursery on the west side of North Broadway and my parents had a home on an acre on the east side of Broadway. We never actually met until we were juniors in high school. I have to admit I fell for her almost immediately however the feelings were not mutual. Despite the complications of my feelings we maintained a good friendship for years through other relationships and phases of life. Around the time that we were both attending SDSU we each found ourselves single. Another key thing happening in my life during this time was my struggle with my perception of life, the universe and God. I had become convinced that there was a god, or at least some sort of intentional design to the universe the deeper into physics and math that I got in my studies. It was my deepening friendship with Christy that gave me a peek into her life as a Christian and it was in her that I saw the warmth and love of Christ. As our friendship progressed and my relationship with God had become something I was aware of I found myself praying that God would show Christy the potential for us that I felt He was showing me. I never told Christy that I thought God wanted us together but deep down, I knew it was the case. In fact the more I learned about God the more I realized that He had been drawing me toward this relationship long before I knew He existed. I was troubled because I thought that it might be possible that God was inspiring my feelings without inspiring the same in her. One day, I had enough and I washed my hands of the whole thing before God. I told him that I was tired and that if He wanted something to come of it then He should do it Himself! I think there was even some fist shaking.
That September night, things changed. It was that night, without prompting from me that Christy told me that she was falling in love with me. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and in fact, neither could she. Not long after that night our relationship switched from a close friendship to a romantic relationship with potential for marriage written all over it. I was ready to ask her to marry me by Christmas but I waited until our families had a chance to catch up. So, in July of the next year (10 months later) I did propose to her and our lives began to be stitched together in a surprising way that only can be a result of God’s hand on our relationship. It had been a long road that took nearly three years to go down but we arrived at the first on-ramp and the Woolsey’s were established.
Our journey to Murrieta was another case of God intervening in our lives through a strong leading in my heart. It was overnight that we went from our content lives in San Diego to a desire to move to Temecula/Murrieta and purchase a home and commit ourselves to Life Church in Temecula. God blessed us with a home, jobs and a church where we would meet the people that would eventually become the pastoral staff of Impact Church.
We can’t wait to see what lies on the road ahead, and we have faith that God will lead us there is a spectacular (in our eyes at least) way.