"Nolite Timere, Pusillus Grex"
Luke 12, 32
2025
Job offers in Dallas. One shared city at last. And in April, a proposal that marked the beginning of forever.
2024
College came to an end: Adrian graduated in Texas, and Steph in Georgia. Our prayers centered on one request: to begin the next chapter in the same city.
2019
For the first time, life took us away from home. We left Honduras and our families to pursue college in the U.S. Adrian to Texas, and Steph to California. FaceTime became part of our daily routine.
2017
As high school was coming to an end, friendship grew into something more. We began dating in 2017.
2014
After more than a year as classmates, conversations finally began. Just kids, forming a simple and genuine friendship.
2012
August 2012: The month we met, the beginning of 6th grade. Two 11-year-olds sharing a classroom, unaware that 14 years later, another August would mark the beginning of forever.
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
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.
Did you know Steph once thought consuming whey protein was basically the same thing as taking steroids? Adrian has since restructured her understanding of macros.