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At about the same time Pastor Scott, who was now 34, had set apart three days to fast and pray. Three days later, he received the letter from Rebecca. This timing felt significant, especially since he had asked the Lord about his single status earlier in the year and had been surprised to clearly hear the answer, “I am doing a quick work. You will be amazed." With these words, Scott had felt God impress on his heart that He did have someone for him and that he would meet her in the fall of that year..
Scott remembered that he had met Rebecca at her sister, Ann’s wedding ten years before, but he could not remember what she looked like. But as they began a correspondence by mail, it quickly became clear that they were meant for each other. I think the U.S. postal service had to put on extra trucks to carry the volume of letters that started to flow north and south between Arcade NY and Cartersville, Virginia. Eventually the phone lines started to heat up as minutes, then hours were spent on the phone getting to know each other.
In October of 1999, Rebecca was coming home to spend Canadian Thanksgiving with us and Scott wrote immediately asking if he could see her since she was coming north. Her mother, asked her, "What if you don't like the way he looks?" She said, "I already love him!" God had placed this love in her heart all those months before.
Pastor Scott picked her up at the airport and brought her to our home in beautiful Fonthill. Within 2 days, they felt like they had known each other for years.
The plan proceeded, engagement and then wedding plans were made and in August 2000, just one year after her first letter was sent, Rebecca Woodworth married Pastor Scott Charles Laird. They are happily married and living about 1.5 h south of here in ski country, near Arcade New York. Their first-born son Ian James was born on my 58th birthday - November 18th. To top it all off, this day in 2001 was also Great Grandmother Noake’s 80th birthday, and Ian came just in time so that we could meet him and still drive back to Canada for her party!
Now if you still think that God can't put you together with your future mate and you have to do it all, look under every rock and search in every hollow tree for someone to spend the rest of your life with, THINK AGAIN!
YOU HAVE JUST HEARD a MIRACLE OF GOD PUTTING a COUPLE TOGETHER. GOD CAN AND WILL DO THE SAME FOR YOU IF YOU TRUST HIM AND PUT HIM FIRST IN YOUR LIFE.
Oh and by the way, Pastor Scott does indeed play the guitar and writes music as well. He produced my daughter’s first cd, Broken Clay
CD, Broken Clay, by Rebecca Woodworth Laird, has been released!
Produced by Laird Studios, Arcade New York
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