BJ Arnett: [00:00:00] When I heard Cameron on the fifth hour of this conversation, we are getting into deep conversation three, four, and five on the fifth hour he says, so what are you doing with the rest of your life? Doesn’t that give you the warm fuzzies? No. And I heard my mouth open and say, I will be with you. I guess I will be with you.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Love stories fill us with joy and inspire hope for the future. And a true life romance can remind us that sometimes just one spark is all it takes to change everything.

She was a respected TV personality in Atlanta, successful on the outside, but she became numb on the inside after the sudden deaths of three family [00:01:00] members. And he was an actor who said no to Hollywood and yes to Christ. Neither were looking for love, and they hadn’t spoken to each other in years until one five hour phone call changed both of their lives forever.

Welcome to Unexpected Love Stories. I’m your host, Don Persky, and my guest today is Mrs. BJ Anette. She’s a TV host, a producer and educator and actor, and a creative force in the world of film and fashion. She’s the host of BJA today and this day with BJ Anette. She’s acted in several movies. She’s the Chair of Art and Fashion Department at Clark Atlanta University, and together with her husband, Cameron Nanette.

They lead Proverbs three one management Model Majesty, LLC, and recently opened Kami Anette production Studios in Georgia. And so much more. Welcome, bj. How are you?

BJ Arnett: I’m good, thank you so much. And that sounds like a [00:02:00] lot. Do I sleep okay? That’s what I was wondering. It’s funny, you know, how I explain my life to people is that, you know, God, uh, has this, um.

Funny way of dealing with women. He describes exactly who we are and exactly what we are to do and be. Mm-hmm. Proverbs 31 gives us a clear description, and it sounds like a lot, but we are designed for it. So as soon as we get our definition from God himself through his word, your mind shifts. It’s not a lot, it’s simply how we are designed.

That’s

Dawn Pruszkowski: amazing. Okay. So I wanna get into this wonderful story of yours and I’m so honored that you’re sharing it with us. Okay. Take us back to the time when you first met Cameron. What were you doing? I

BJ Arnett: met Cameron in the eighties, late eighties. Oh no, actually early [00:03:00] eighties. Uh, and he was an actor model coming through Atlanta.

And, uh, I had called my agent and I said. I’m doing another three or four fashion shows around the city and I am so tired of looking at the same faces, so I need to see some new models. And she said, well, you need to meet these guys who came in from Florida. One particular, his name is Kami. I said, oh, okay.

Well, all right. So I, I, um, had an interview day for models and he auditioned, and that’s literally how we met. He tells it so much better than I, but when we met, I was going through a very difficult time in my life and a very bad relationship, and he got the brunt of an angry woman. So when I, uh, [00:04:00] auditioned him, he felt the raft of the pain that I was going through in a very, um.

Bad relationship and an abusive relationship. So, uh, that was a defining moment, I would say in that interview process because I was just downright rude. Let’s just tell that part. I was just down rude and I remember him leaning on my desk. I, and I’m sitting, and he’s in front of me, right? And he leans over and he basically says to me, you’ll not talk to me like that.

And I just kind of pulled back and I never did that again. But I did book him as a model because he was absolutely excellent. I could put anything on this man, and it would sell out of the stores. And I was just like, okay, [00:05:00] he’s gonna make me a superstar as a fashion coordinator because the reason you do a fashion show is so that.

Every piece of merchandise that you use of the show sells. So he, he was great at that. He, he was great at that. Even had a, a actual fan base in Atlanta. Whenever I did a show in Atlanta, they would say, is Cameron Anette gonna be in it? Is Steve Charman gonna be in it? Is uh, Brian Bishop gonna be in it? And those guys were the guys that every store wanted to wear their merchandise.

Starting with Cameron Arnett. Wow. So that’s how we met those many years ago. Uh, he left, uh, Atlanta, uh, to, to pursue further his career in acting and film and, uh, television series. And we didn’t see each other nor talk to each other for more than 10 years, I would think. Yeah, about 10

Dawn Pruszkowski: years. [00:06:00]

BJ Arnett: So he actually.

Popped up on my television. My, my dearest girlfriend who he knows, he, he knows very well. Um, she’s my best friend. He and my best friend actually helped me walk away from that, uh, abusive relationship those many years before in, in the early eighties. But at any rate, uh, we saw him pop up on the television on a little show called Star Trek, and then we saw him on Doogie Houser, and then we saw him on, you know, you name it, he was on it Miami Vice.

So he was doing quite well and we were his, um, cheerleaders that he didn’t even know. That we were cheering for him so many, many, many years after that, um, I became pregnant. Uh, I was a single mom, about to be a single mom, [00:07:00] and, um, I called Cameron and said, Hey, how are you? I said, these, I’m, well. When I said, he said, I’ve heard from you for years how you been.

Doing quite well, but I’m expecting, and there are only two men in my life that I would want to name my son after because of the integrity that these two men possess and that those two men are you and my grandfather. May I name my son after you. Now you have to remember, this is a man who literally sat in front of me on the floor.

And said, you are worth more than that. Those marks on your neck should not be there. No one’s hand prints should be on you. You are loved by God. He made you special. He did that. My girlfriend. Um. Stood and [00:08:00] said, that is what God says about you. They, so they both poured into me literally all night. He had not heard from me in years, but when I call, I say, I made a mistake, but God made a miracle.

I made a mistake, but God made a miracle.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm.

BJ Arnett: So will you allow me to use your integrity to pour into. What I now know as a boy, along with my grandpa who had recently passed and he said, oh, oh, okay, hold on. And he, um, had to talk with his wife and she said, yes, I can do it. And so I named my son Cameron Clay.

My grandpa’s name, Rucker, which was my maiden name, and after [00:09:00] my son was born, he was in the hospital for eight weeks, I believe. Uh, he was born Preem. And, uh, three pounds, 11 ounces and 21 inches long. He looked like ET with hair. That’s all I can tell you. That’s like tiny. Oh no, he was tiny. He literally fit in the palm of my hand.

So he had to stay in the hospital until he was five pounds. And after that five pounds, I called Cameron again and I said, Cameron we’re my dad. And, um, my friends we’re. Taking, uh, Sunday, what I’m trying to remember, Sunday, March 5th, I believe it was, uh, April 5th, and we’re taking him to church and we are having his blessing ceremony.

Would you be able to, uh, attend? And he said, absolutely. I’m gonna make that happen. So [00:10:00] that. Like I said, he hadn’t seen me in years. Uh, he gets that phone call that he flies into Atlanta and does the blessing ceremony and literally flies out the very next day. And that’s quite something. I mean that he hasn’t seen you in all that time and No, and I didn’t really know anything about his life and he didn’t really know anything about mine other than I, I.

Have a son who I adore and um, and in fact I, that was a pivotal moment in my life, uh, to, to have this beautiful baby boy, knowing that God had blessed me. Even though, even though, even though, and my child was not a mistake. I made a mistake, but my child was not. So God is gracious. In his raising up of this woman [00:11:00] so many years after that, um, I began to, uh, I went from my position at 11 alive, NBC, here in Atlanta as a, uh, anchor for, uh, new news and an entertainment reporter, and I did that and I was also.

Asked by my dad to take a job as a marketing director at a mall. And I said, I don’t want to dad. I love doing my television. I’m still doing my fashion shows. I’m teaching model. In fact, it was called Model Magic back then and um, I’m Good. And he was like, oh, please do this for me. I think you’ll do really good and they really need you.

I took the job. But it was, um, what is that old term? My, my, uh, grandm would say it was a roost. It he was secretly knowing that he wasn’t well and that he wanted me closer [00:12:00] to him. So for a year and a half, um, I was working maybe seven minutes from my dad’s house and as the mall marketing director, second in command of a very active mall.

With a tiny little fella named Cameron who was walking around the mall with me as I did store greetings and marketing events. And yes, it was either, he was either on my hip or one of our policemen. And then my, my dad, um, was attacked by cancer and I moved out of. Partially moved out of my condo, moved in with my dad to help get him back and forth to the hospital for his oncology appointments and so forth, and within a year and a few [00:13:00] months he was gone.

So that’s my dad who raised me from age five, who moved to Atlanta just to be with me. As I went through illness after illness, my dad was always by my side, and then my baby sister who followed me into celibacy and declaring Jesus’s Lord out loud in front of my church. Jesus’s Lord, I made a mistake, but I didn’t make a baby.

That was a mistake. My God blessed me though. I made a mistake, so I. Said that to my church. And at that moment where this little boy is walking around and I’m telling my sisters, all my sisters, this baby sister said, I’m, I understand. I get it. [00:14:00] God is a loving God. And she followed me into celibacy. I had been celibate for as long as the baby was born, right?

So at this time he was four and a half. And she was seeing someone and she said, I’m dedicating my life to Christ. I am married to the Lord Jesus until he brings me who He said. And he murdered her. He waited, um, at her home one day, uh, as she was coming home from lunch, she walked up her back stairs. He shot her in the back of the leg.

And then shot her in the back of the head.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Oh my gosh.

BJ Arnett: And that was only months after my dad passed who I had taken care of over a year. And then my daddy, who I’m of his seed, who everyone says I look just like in my son actually resembles him as well. [00:15:00] He passes of cancer. He had just met his grandson.

Our relationship had been restored. He had just met his grandson when my son turned. Two and a half. So then he passes. So these are within months of each other.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm.

BJ Arnett: So I’m in my dad’s house who raised me and I’m washing the walls. I, I’m still marketing director of a mall. I still have a little one. I’m washing the walls in the hallway.

I don’t know why I was washing the wall.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Well, something ha I mean, you had to be like on like. Autopilot

BJ Arnett: almost, I would think just, it was just movement. I, it was just movement. Um, I knew that my dad was in the presence of the Lord. I knew that. I knew that my sister was in the presence of the Lord. I knew my daddy [00:16:00] was in the presence of the Lord, but I didn’t know why I was in the hall at that moment, washing that wall and, and to this day.

When something is on my mind and I’m in prayer, I wash the counters in my kitchen. I have the cleanest counters in the kitchen that anybody could, I possibly have, because that’s what I do. So anyway, I’m in the hallway and my phone rings, and it’s not like I hadn’t heard this before, Cameron. Annette had been trying to get in touch with me for a minute.

On his side of the story, he said he called the girlfriend. My very best girlfriend who sat on the floor while the both of them are telling me I’m valuable to the Lord God. He called her and he said, where is bj? I have three cards, uh, of you, but I have no contact information on bj. She gave him three phone numbers and she did not tell him that [00:17:00] my dad had just died and my sister was murdered, and my daddy, he died.

She just said she’s been through a lot. These are the numbers I have. I don’t know if she’ll answer. The phone rings. I’m in the hallway washing the wall. I hear the answering machine. I don’t know if your audience even knows what that is, but that was back in the nineties. Okay, so the answering machine is ringing, ringing, ringing, and I hear Cameron say, bj.

Bj, are you there? Hello? Hello? I don’t wanna talk to anyone, so I’m washing the wall and I promise you this is what I remember. And as I say it, I feel it. The hand of God pushed me from the hallway over to flip the phone. I literally was in the hallway. I fell over the phone by a push. I remember that distinctly.

I fell over the phone. He’s going, bj, is that you? Bj? Bj. [00:18:00] I finally picked up the phone with a bad attitude and I said hello. Five hours later we were getting married.

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BJ Arnett: What? Wait, wait, wait. Back that up. Yeah, that’s, that’s like the craziness of God is an orchestrator. If I hadn’t called him what several years before and said, I’m pregnant, [00:19:00] is it okay that I named my son after you and my grandpa? That’s a God orchestration moment. Why? Why did I call him? Because he had shown me kindness.

He had identified who my daddy was, the father God. So we talked the first hour all about my son, what I had been doing, um, how my life was going. And by the second hour, he knew about the three deaths in my life. By the third hour he said he heard God say, this is your wife. What he didn’t know before my dad passed.

He said, I need you to have this because your husband and children are coming. I said, dad, hush up. You’re silly. I’m married to Jesus and I wore wedding ring [00:20:00] my dedication to Jesus Christ as my Savior, as my Lord, and as my husband, but I had prayed. From the moment I found out I was pregnant that I would marry only the man that God would bring to me, send to me the man who was just like him because he is made in his image and his likeness, and I taught that baby boy to pray.

What I prayed. And my prayer was, Lord God, bring me one, like you said, who is made in your image and your likeness. I will not go look for him ’cause I don’t do that well. Mm-hmm. I want him to have arms long enough to wrap around me. Showed is broad enough for me to lean into and a heart that is chasing after [00:21:00] you.

That is what I want. And until you bring me that, I’ll be right here. Waiting for that. My dad said, I need you to have this because your husband and children are coming. And he and I laughed and I said, dad, it’s the cancer drugs go into your mind. And we laughed and left. And then he said it again. This being the his house, correct?

Yes, yes. Okay. And every time I talked to him, he said the same thing. Baby, I need you to do this. And I was like, dad, we can sell the house and I am your stepdaughter, your birth children. We can sell it. Your job is to leave an inheritance for your children and your children’s children. He wasn’t. He literally was like, no, you’re getting this, this, this, this, this, this, this.

And I said, but the Bible said, and he shifted. So. [00:22:00] I was in the house that he gave me. I still had another home, but I was in the house that he gave me, and this phone call said this man on the other end, on the third hour, heard the Lord say to him, this is your wife. On the fourth hour, he said, Cameron said he heard God say it again.

Cameron’s fighting mentally, but he’s talking to me. He’s fighting mentally with God and he’s saying, Lord, I haven’t seen this woman in years. Lord, what are you talking about? I don’t know her. I don’t love her. I don’t, we did not love each other when we got married. We did not. We married out of obedience to what God had said.

I did not tell Cameron what my dad said. Cameron didn’t tell me. What God had said when I heard [00:23:00] Cameron on the fifth hour of this conversation, we are getting into deep conversation three, four, and five on the fifth hour. He says, so what are you doing with the rest of your life? Doesn’t that give you the warm fuzzies?

You know, and I heard my mouth open. And say, I will be with you. I guess I will be with you. And he said, yeah, that’s what it is. And within two weeks he was in Atlanta, he had told his assistant, I’m going to Atlanta to see if this is really true, because this is what God said. He came to Atlanta in two and a half weeks.

He sta what? What was supposed to be a week stay. He stayed for two and a half weeks. He said when he got to the [00:24:00] airport and I met him at the airport, I did the unspeakable. Cameron Arnette does not like I was late. But his plane was early, so when I came up to him, I’m a very, uh, bubbly, joyful kind of person.

I’m like, hi, yay. Good to see you. And he’s like, yeah, hello. Not a good way to start the marriage. Not a good way. Not a good way to start the courtship. Not a good way, but we didn’t know each other. I didn’t know that late was a big thing for him. He had said, I don’t like lateness, but I had no idea the impact that was for him.

So at that point, he’s saying to himself at the airport, first time he’s seen me in five years, he’s saying to himself, okay, Lord, really? You want [00:25:00] me to marry a late woman? Me? No. So we get in my mommy van, a bright turquoise blue mommy van with all the mommy trimmings in the back, which is baseball bats, cowboy hats.

Um, I had a whole soccer net thing in the back. It was amazing. He got in there and he was like, okay, she’s in a mommy van that really messes up a brother’s. Cool. Okay, so that was not a thing he said as I was driving, he heard God say again. When I stopped the car, he said, stop the car. Let’s talk. As I stopped the car, he said he heard God say again, this is your wife.

And at that point, he didn’t deny it anymore. I think my hands were shaking. I was terrified. I didn’t know this man. I was willing to [00:26:00] marry him because I heard my dad say, your husband and children are coming. That was a God orchestration. I, I can’t even explain how my whole body knew. That this was who I was supposed to marry, and the voice that I was hearing on the other end of the phone and the face that I was seeing for the first time in five years was not the kind man that I met 10 years, 15 years before.

Who? Who said, no one should have their hands on your neck. No one should treat you like that. That wasn’t the same man. The man that I met at the airport was a shell of the man that I had met many years before. He was hurt. He was in pain, he was angry.[00:27:00]

And when, and you’re,

Dawn Pruszkowski: and you’ve got a child and you’re thinking, it’s not just you getting married, but this guy’s going to be a father

BJ Arnett: to my son, my child. ’cause the. He has to take you and him together. Yes. And that was my, my only thing that I said to him when he said, well, you’re, you’re marrying me, um, basically that he was, what are you doing for the rest of your life?

And I said, well, I guess I’m marrying you. And he said, yeah. And I, and, and the only request I had it was love me and love my son, love my son that. Was everything to me. So we get through that conversation in the car, in the van, and we begin our courtship. My aunt and his mother both live in Atlanta, so they were our co courtship watchful eyes.

So if we, hilarious, [00:28:00] if we went, if we went to sit in the car. To have a private conversation. The two little women would be in the kitchen window like that. It was hilarious. And he and I would laugh and we just, we’d sit in the car and we’d talk and talk and talk. And I told him, and he told me every painful thing that, that we could think of that we had done, the persons that had died because of.

Salvation. The blood of Jesus had washed us both clean. We told each other everything about ourselves to the other. No one can ever walk up to my now husband and say, well, did you know she did X, Y, and Z? ’cause he can say yes. It was the most painful, horrific. [00:29:00] Most important thing we could do. And we’ve had to forgive each other for the things that we had done in our past because our savior had forgiven us.

So we had no right to bring it up again ever. We, we gave it good.

Dawn Pruszkowski: That’s

BJ Arnett: good. So. We started our courtship. Nine months we’re in study together. We’re studying the word, we’re confessing the word over each other. We are, we are studying every day together. And we we’re about to get married on an island called Little Palm Island.

And again, my aunt, his mom, we were all together. My, uh, we are a blended family. My husband has. Four children and I had the one, and we became a blended family on our wedding day in November, [00:30:00] and now 27 years, married 28 years together. Our courtship was just over nine months. Our island was blown away by a hurricane.

And guess where we ended up getting married? Where in the backyard of the house that my dad said, your husband and children are coming, and our blended family that day was blended. All of the children were there together,

Dawn Pruszkowski: little

BJ Arnett: guys that they were, but God did that. He orchestrated that through my mess.

He brought a glorious, beautiful son. My son wasn’t a mistake. I made a mistake, but my daddy, my father, God forgave me of that. [00:31:00] When I said, I give it all to you. This is it. I can’t do this. And then he brought me. Two, my husband, I can’t thank God enough for being God in my life. This is a woman who tried to kill herself.

This is a woman. Once I got past trying to kill myself and became all of these things that you mentioned earlier. I was still very empty. It wasn’t until I gave my life to Christ holy fully that I began to be filled.

And then God said, now that you’ve given yourself to me holy and fully, all of these things that [00:32:00] I’ve already planned for you will manifest. I dreamt at five years old of my husband sitting in a big blue wing back chair, and I was standing next to him for a photo shoot with his briefcase on the floor.

Standing tall next to him and I was leaning against the chair and I had a, and I don’t know if any little girl did this other than me. I had the sheet off of my parents’ bed wrapped around me, like an evening gown. I had a big bow ribbon in the top of my hair and I had a microphone in my hand, which was a hairbrush, and I said, ladies and gentlemen, my husband.

I was five.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Wow.

BJ Arnett: Now I get to say, ladies and gentlemen, my husband, Cameron. Annette, almost every week of my life. What an amazing God [00:33:00] we have.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm.

BJ Arnett: Truly an amazing God We have. He’s so good. He’s so good, so good. And now I get to make movies with my husband. I got play paid to play my husband’s wife in the forge.

What kind of gig is that? I’m already married to the man. I got paid to play his wife. I think that’s the funniest thing in the world. What a great time we had. What a great time we’ve had with Model Majesty, with ka net production studios. Our studio in, uh, Roberta, Georgia just opened in September, September 13th.

We have Christ Over Career, which is our ministry that is really founded by my husband’s Walk with the Lord and saying No to Hollywood and yes to Christ first. I can’t tell you how much I love my Lord. [00:34:00] I can’t even, the words don’t even get it.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm. Well, and I, can I ask a question too? ’cause I, I think there’s something that listeners would wanna know.

So when, because when you guys agreed to get married

BJ Arnett: Yeah.

Dawn Pruszkowski: There wasn’t that affection, those butterflies No. Anything like that? No. And then it was nine months of hard work.

BJ Arnett: Yes. Before

Dawn Pruszkowski: you said I do.

BJ Arnett: Yes.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Were the feelings there when you got got married and or how and how did, how did it grow? Since you guys had a lot to build up.

BJ Arnett: We did. We had a, we had a lot to get past. Um, I, in fact was on medication, um, for depression. I didn’t even realize that that was what it was actually for the, the doctor who prescribed Zoloft and then Prozac said, oh, this’ll help you lose weight. He said later that he was even afraid [00:35:00] to tell me because of the deaths, one behind the other, what it was actually for, because he just was terrified of where I would go.

So I, when I’m, when I entered into my courtship, I was on Prozac at one point and Zoloft at the other, I can’t remember which came first. Our study of the Bible was everything to us. We studied what a marriage was supposed to look like. According to God. I did not know of a marriage. He did not know of a marriage, um, that we could say was totally dedicated to our Lord and Savior.

Jesus Christ through the Father God, we didn’t know that. So we had to study the word together in order to identify what is God saying in his word to men and women, to [00:36:00] husband and wives in order to live out a strong marriage. And what we first realized was. We had to unveil all the things that we were trying to hide, and that’s where sitting in the car together and we would literally do this, I would rub his shoulder and say, I’m about to tell you something that I did.

And he would do the same thing to me. I’m about to tell you something. So first it was the unveiling and and putting it under God. Okay? Because God has already forgiven us for that. Those things are gone. Then it was, now that that is gone, how do we build this man, this woman, correctly honoring God and honoring one another?

So the first thing was identifying who your first love is. Our first Lord. Our first love is our Lord and Savior. So that is the first. [00:37:00] So everything that we did was first honoring God. Through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and we were both married to Christ first, and then our relationship above made our relationship together work.

So my husband had to walk through the pain of a past marriage. As he walked through that pain, I had to be, what he showed me in the Bible was this woman, according to what God said, Proverbs 31, Ephesians one, Peter. It’s all descriptive of who we are as women and the strength that we have as women. Wives to Christ and then [00:38:00] wives to this man.

So my husband said to me, if you will love me the way this word says, I cannot help but do and be what God says I am because I’m a man of God first. And I will not go out like that. So see, he gave me a key to a door that I had never seen. Because I had never been married before because I had never seen in my face, in my relationships with other men and women.

I didn’t know of a couple that exemplified that. I didn’t grow up with that. Mm-hmm. My parents married several times. Okay. So I didn’t grow up with that. So I didn’t have that. Who I knew was Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. So did Cameron. We knew them from television. We knew that looked like that marriage that [00:39:00] was described.

We knew pastors on television that we studied, that we listened to. That had that. So we went about defining what God said a marriage is and what it looks like with a husband and wife on the earth. And that’s what we did. And it was painful and it was hard. Mm-hmm. And Cameron was going through his own pain and I was going through my own pain and growth, both of us growing.

It would be some days where he couldn’t talk to me. He was building, growing, trying to pull off the layers of pain. And one day, and we were married, one day we reached a point and I saw him leaning against the kitchen counter and he was. [00:40:00] Upset about something, and I literally jumped on him. Like I, he says I crawled up on him and wrapped myself around him, and I probably did.

But um, I would not let him go. And I kept holding him and telling him, I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. But see that word? I love you. Those words I love you had to be on the backdrop of. Showing. I love you, based upon what the word said that looked like. And he began to crumble in my arms and literally he began to just drop.

And as he dropped the layers of pain, the man that you guys see now Rose because he really was having. A point of rebirth from [00:41:00] a painful life.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm.

BJ Arnett: The rejection of Hollywood, the tearing up everything he ever thought that he was about to be and do, because he said, I will not. I take my clothes off, I will not do partial body nudity.

I will not. I’m a Christian now. I can’t do this. Literally, that was the moment that Christ Over Career was born inside of his heart because he said No to the world, but yes to Christ. And it was many years later as we walked back into the film industry. And he did a film, uh, in 2018, I believe it was, no, I’m sorry, two, 2013.

That was his first film back and several years after that he was in [00:42:00] LA walking the red carpet, and people were interviewing him and everybody knew his testimony. And one of the reporters from Entertainment Tonight said, so, hey, you put Christ over your career. And he went, yeah, I did. Mm-hmm. And that’s how Christ Over Career was born.

But look at the journey God took us through, individually and collectively for us to be able to, and I’m standing right next to him, walking down the carpet with him and I heard it and I looked at him and he looked at me and he said later, after we got off the red carpet, he said, babe. God just birthed a ministry and I guess it was already there.

We just had to walk through it. So that’s the short version of a very long story, of a love story of loving God [00:43:00] first because we did not love each other.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm. Now

BJ Arnett: we are crazy in love, but when we began this marriage, we began the marriage out of obedience. Period.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm.

BJ Arnett: Out of obedience. So that’s, and now you’re crazy in love.

Crazy in love. This is something I, I, I am, I am Cameron. Our net’s cheerleader. I’m crazy about that man. Mm-hmm. The man of God who I married, the man who put Christ over his career, the man who cried out to God.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm.

BJ Arnett: That’s so beautiful and this direction.

Dawn Pruszkowski: That’s so beautiful. Mm. Is there anything else that you wanna share?

BJ Arnett: I, you know, I think the thing that I wanna share to both men and women [00:44:00] is don’t be afraid to be vulnerable to, to the will and way of God. Don’t be afraid to be vulnerable to the will and way of God. Don’t be afraid. My husband has said this and I’ve, I remember the first time I heard him say it. We do things for the world that make us later look bad.

Why not do for the Lord and Savior and make him look great? Walk in your life not giving the Lord a black eye, but. Lifting up his name by your excellence, by your kindness, by your being able to go to work and work with someone who has a bad attitude, but you are the light that walked into the room that day.

Be that person. Love God enough to love someone [00:45:00] else, the way he has loved you, and be vulnerable to his word and his will. And he will give you everything because he already gave you everything. He’s just waiting for you to walk through it. It’s already done. That’s

Dawn Pruszkowski: it. Well, I love that. Thank you for sharing your incredible story.

’cause I know that it had to have touched so many hearts. Amen. Amen. Friends, remember. God can turn your waiting into purpose and he can turn your pain into love. Yes. All it takes is a simple yes to his timing.

Mm-hmm.

Now I want you to find out more about BJ and your husband Cameron. So visit our website, unexpected love stories.com.

The link is in the show notes just below. At, just click it, it’s gonna take you right to their page. Mm-hmm. Um, we’ve got lots of fun [00:46:00] photos that go with their story as well as. Uh, more about their bios, um, and links on how to contact them. All the information, you’ll find it there. And before we end, I just want to ask you, please, would you be sure to follow or subscribe to our podcast so that you don’t miss a single episode?

’cause there’s no two love stories alike, but each of them are very inspiring. You have the power to grow this podcast. So will you help this podcasts algorithm be put, uh, put us in front of more people? Uh, it’s really easy. All you have to do is leave a con comment or a question, hit the thumbs up if you’re on YouTube, or give us a five star if you’re on another, uh, podcast platform.

And that’s going to generate us in front of more people’s eyes ’cause more people need to hear, um, these stories of, of true love. Well, I hope that your heart feels lighter. And full of hope after hearing this story. ’cause you [00:47:00] know, often the best love stories are the ones that we never saw coming. So keep your heart open because love truly is waiting for you.

So we’ll see you next time.