"Nolite Timere, Pusillus Grex"

Lucas 12, 32

2025

Propuestas de trabajo en Dallas. Por fin, una ciudad compartida. Y en abril, una propuesta que marcó el comienzo de un para siempre.

2024

La universidad llegó a su fin: Adrián se graduó en Texas y Steph en Georgia. Nuestras oraciones tenían un solo propósito: comenzar la siguiente etapa de nuestras vidas en la misma ciudad.

2019

Por primera vez, la vida nos llevó lejos de casa. Dejamos Honduras y a nuestras familias para comenzar la universidad en Estados Unidos. Adrián se fue a Texas y Steph a California. FaceTime pasó a ser parte de nuestra rutina diaria.

2017

Al acercarse el final de secundaria, nuestra amistad se convirtió en algo más. Comenzamos nuestro noviazgo en 2017.

2014

Después de más de un año como compañeros de clase, por fin comenzaron las conversaciones. Solo éramos dos niños, formando una amistad sencilla y genuina.

2012

Agosto del 2012: El mes en que nos conocimos, el comienzo de sexto grado. Dos niños de 11 años compartiendo un salón de clases, sin imaginar que, catorce años después, otro mes de agosto marcaría el comienzo de un para siempre.

"No temas, pequeño rebaño, porque el Padre de ustedes ha querido darles el Reino."

Lucas 12,32

"No temas, pequeño rebaño, porque el Padre de ustedes ha querido darles el Reino."

Lucas 12,32

The Hearts Behind

If you've made it this far, thank you.


You've now seen fourteen years of our lives condensed into a handful of dates and photographs.


But pictures can only show so much: They can tell you what we looked like. But they cannot tell you who we were becoming.

When we first met, we were children. Our understanding of life was still forming, our world was smaller.


We had no way of knowing who we would become, what we would value, or what the years ahead would ask of us.


As we grew, so did our dreams, our priorities, and our understanding of the world around us.

There were moments when our lives could have taken different directions. Countless decisions that could have led us somewhere else.


And there were seasons when it seemed they might.


Yet here we are.


After all the growing, all the questions, all the decisions, we find ourselves standing in the same place. Together.


And perhaps that is what feels so surreal about this moment…


Not that we changed.


But that we have changed together.

Lorem
ipsum

Do not be afraid, little flock

Little Flock

A Free Choice

While changing together may sound straightforward, it is anything but.


The longer we've reflected on our story, the more we've realized that what makes our story remarkable is not that it began in high school, but that it has been freely chosen.


When we were younger, we naturally assumed that affection was enough. That friendship, family ties, and care would naturally keep people together. Yet over time, we came to understand that even sincere affection does not guarantee that two lives will continue in the same direction.


Not because the care is gone.


But simply because people are not always headed toward the same thing.


Thus, the odds that two people, each possessing complete freedom to pursue different lives, would continue choosing the same future are remarkably small.,,


But that is precisely what happened.

While changing together may sound straightforward, it is anything but.

The years could have shaped us into different people with different desires, different priorities, and different lives.

The longer we've reflected on our story, the more we've realized that what makes our story remarkable is not that it began in high school, but that it has always been freely chosen.

Over the years, we have had to make decisions. We have grown in ways neither of us could have predicted. We have discovered new things about ourselves, about each other, and about the life we wanted to build.

Over the years, we have had to make decisions. We have grown in ways neither of us could have predicted. We have discovered new things about ourselves, about each other, and about the life we wanted to build.

There were seasons when one of us arrived somewhere before the other. Seasons when our growth unfolded at different paces and our paths seemed less certain than they once had.

Yet, every significant decision we have made thus far: life, cities, school, careers, religion, and even the relationship itself, has been freely and individually chosen.

Never owed.

Never pressured.

Never forced.

Never chosen out of some stubborn determination to prove that "a first love must become a lasting one."

We simply kept taking the next step, one day at a time, discovering along the way that it is together we want to live and together we want to die.

Yet nothing about choosing one another has placed us outside of the ordinary realities of being human…
We are still shaped by our limitations.
Still confronted by our weaknesses. Still learning, in real time, what it means to love someone well beyond intention alone.

If anything, our free will has only made us more aware of how often we fail to live it well…

We do not stand here under the illusion that choosing each other solves everything, nor that it exempts us from the struggles that accompany every human life.

Quite the contrary.


Our joy is real.


But it is not naive.


We know marriage does not erase selfishness. It does not eliminate human flaws. That if love were that simple, Saint Paul's words would not resonate so deeply: "For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate."


It is precisely in that acknowledged poverty that we chose our wedding motto:

"Nolite Timere, Pusillus Grex."

"Do not be afraid, little flock"

We are called to live without fear. Not because we are strong, but because our Father is faithful. And no matter what comes, internal struggles or external trials, we trust that He walks with us.

Looking back, we do not see a story written by us. We see our two lives shaped by countless moments of freedom and choice, shepherded by a Father who was present long before we recognized Him.

Marriage is not our end goal.

It is simply the path through which God is drawing us closer to Him, together…

We love because He first loved us.

You might not understand, but we hope in some small way you feel it.


Because the same Love that found us is seeking you, too.

You might not understand, but we hope in some small way you feel it.


Because the same Love that found us is seeking you, too.

Do not be afraid

You might not understand, but we hope in some small way you feel it.


Because the same Love that found us is seeking you, too.

Do not be afraid

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