An Unexpected Love Story | Ryan and Karina's Story Ep. 3 | Life Upside Down

He embarrassed her the first time they met. She was about to ask him to be a groomsman in her wedding. Instead, he asked her to marry him.

Ryan and Karina come from two completely different backgrounds. Different upbringings. Different lifestyles. Different everything. They met working together when Ryan was 18 and Karina was 16. And Ryan’s first impression? He told her a dirty joke that completely embarrassed her in front of everyone.

Not exactly a love story opening.

But over time, something shifted. Ryan was curious about Karina’s faith. He didn’t understand it, but he couldn’t ignore it either. And over the next three years, Karina would witness to Ryan as they slowly became friends. She wasn’t trying to change him. She was just living her life for God, and he noticed.

But it wasn’t a clean road for either of them. Ryan would pull away at times because his own conviction about his lifestyle was too heavy to sit with next to someone like her. Karina invited him to church camp in the first six months of their friendship. Ryan had a meaningful experience there, but then went right back to struggling with sin for the next three years.
Meanwhile Karina was in a long-distance relationship that had been going on for about four years. It was toxic. But she stayed because she didn’t know anything different. Eventually she was ready to get married to someone else.

Then the turn nobody saw coming…
Ryan got saved. Actually gave his life to Christ. And in his prayer time, he felt God showing him something he never expected…that Karina was his match. They reconnected as friends after Ryan told her he was saved. And Karina was so happy for him that she planned to ask him to be a groomsman in her upcoming wedding.

But before she could ask, Ryan said something that stopped the whole conversation.

What if we got married?

Karina didn’t say yes on the spot. She fasted. She prayed. And God revealed that He was asking her to marry Ryan. Not the man she had been with for four years. The man who embarrassed her on day one and spent three years running from the God she served.

You can’t make this up. Only God writes a love story like this.
Episode 3 is now live on YouTube.




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