Cheryl Price: [00:00:00] And I agreed with her that he was really cute. And so to spend a little time with him, um, I was already, I had just graduated from film school at RET University and I came home bored in Charlotte and I was like, I’m gonna film a teen detective show and I’m gonna pretend he’s young enough to play a teenager.

Chris Price: And at that time I was, I was way outta high school age. It’s like I was well past high school

Cheryl Price: age, but he came to be an extra for me. And so it’s, what’s so funny is that I had a crew of like two people and I was. Director, camera, operator, writer, whatever. Um, I still have the footage today from my little high eight camera where I was running around all these extras in the high school classroom, and I kept landing on him in the footage because I thought he was so cute.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Love stories Phyllis 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.[00:01:00]

She was writing a book about waiting for the right man. He was the man God was preparing for her. You wanna savor this delightful story. Welcome to Unexpected Love Stories. I’m your host, Don Kowski, our guest today. Our guests today are Chris and Cheryl Price. Cheryl McKay Price is the author of Finally the Bride, finding Hope while waiting, and finally, fearless.

She’s the screenwriter of feature film, the Ultimate Gift, as well as these Stones and Cheryl’s co-written many more. She’s the author of Potter Knows Best. It’s a series of children’s books and co-author of the novel, never the Bride. Bruce owns a Roads and Rivers media production and post company where he serves the producer, camera operator, and video editor.

He’s also a former missionary who’s served in Spain, Harway, and many other countries, and together they’ve spoken at [00:02:00] churches and events and they plan to co-write a marriage book called Finally One. All right, let’s hear this beautiful story. I’m so glad you guys are here. Welcome.

Chris Price: Well, thank you so much for having us to begin with.

It’s a pleasure to be

Dawn Pruszkowski: here. Oh yeah. Thank you. Wow. I’m the one who’s so honored. Thank you so much. Okay. Let’s hear your story. It actually, we have to go back to the waiting process, correct?

Chris Price: That is correct. That is correct. So for us, um. It seems like waiting has always been a part of our story, um, in various parts of life.

You know, and I think sometimes what’s really tough is when you’re in the middle of waiting, especially when you have hope for something that’s coming. It’s really easy to get impatient and just kind of strike out on your own or make your own decisions. But we found that it’s always best to really just rely on the Lord and, and trust him and to wait on his [00:03:00] timing and just surrender to him and his choice.

’cause his choices are always the best for us.

Cheryl Price: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like if I could take you back in time a little bit, um, I would go back to 1994 when I have a journal entry in here that I’m just gonna read the beginning of, because to me. These days, it kind of cracks me up. Um, I wrote a prayer to God, um, that summer saying, there must be a reason, Lord, that you have left me still alone.

You must be shaping me for something. But I’ll be honest, I’m sick of it, but as I always say, you know best I know it’ll be special when you, my Lord, finally, bless me with marriage and a family. My future is in your hands. Lord, I don’t know where it’s headed, but use me for your sake. And your glory now. Of course, I had no idea that it was gonna be 17 years later until I went on my first date with this guy.

So because, but we did meet in the nineties.

Chris Price: We did

Cheryl Price: You wanna share a bit about that?

Chris Price: I do. Yeah. We both went to the same [00:04:00] singles class at a fairly large church in Charlotte, North Carolina. And just the singles class alone had over a hundred people. On average. So it was a large class? Yes, and I actually got to know Cheryl’s sister first.

Her and her boyfriend were in the, in that class as well, and that’s how I got introduced to Cheryl.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. ’cause my sister said, you gotta meet this guy in singles class. He’s really cute. And his name’s Chris. And I think it’s funny that I actually agreed with her. I’m like, yeah, he’s about the only cute guy in class.

I mean, he may say there was like a hundred people there, but I didn’t consider that there were a lot of candidates in that class. And I agreed with her that he was really cute. And so to spend a little time with him, um, I was already. I had just graduated from film school at Regent University and I came home bored in Charlotte and I was like, I’m gonna film a teen detective show and I’m gonna pretend he’s young enough to play a teenager.

Chris Price: And at that time I was, I was way outta high school age, like I was well past high school,

Cheryl Price: but he came to be an extra for me. And so [00:05:00] it’s, what’s so funny is that I had a crew of like two people and I was. Director, camera, operator, writer, whatever. Um, I still have the footage today from my little high eight camera where I was running around all these extras in the high school classroom, and I kept landing on him in the footage because I thought he was so cute.

Uh, yeah. But, uh, yeah. So anyway, um, but anyway, he, apparently he started dating another girl.

Chris Price: I did

Dawn Pruszkowski: well, did you know she was interested in you when she was filming you as a

Chris Price: I had absolutely no idea. And what was funny, it’s like, ’cause I’d seen Cheryl around and I’d participated on some of her shoots and things and you know, this was back before I got into the whole creative thing and I was just kind of not, not really that creative at the time and didn’t really play guitar at that time either.

So, but the things that struck me about Cheryl is. I, I thought, man, she’s just this really artsy kind of creative kind of person. And then the [00:06:00] other thing that really stood out to me was it didn’t matter where I saw her, she was always wearing a fanny pack. Always

Cheryl Price: and their back was sexy. Um, yeah. And you know what was interesting for me is once he did start dating somebody else, I saw him in the balcony at church.

Like we were coming and going from a service. Yeah. And we crossed paths and I see him put the, the hand or his hand on the smaller of her back, uh, the, the blonde girl. And they walk by me and I’m like, oh. He found someone. But you know what? I’m leaving for California anyway, so what do I care? And I, at that point in time, one of the reasons I never made it obvious that I liked him or thought he was cute or whatever, was I knew I was Hollywood bound.

I knew that was my mission and I was like, I don’t want anyone making me wanna stay here. And I felt like that would’ve been wrong at the time. And so I moved away at that point in 2000 while he was meanwhile in that new relationship. So,

Chris Price: but you know, the funny thing about it is that relationship, once that one ended.

[00:07:00] Um, and she was a, she was a great person and there was nothing, you know, about that, but it just, the more I prayed about it, I just knew that she wasn’t the right person for me and I wasn’t the right person for her either. So we ended, I ended that relationship and, um, I didn’t know that that would be the last person that I officially dated.

Until we reconnected Years later.

Cheryl Price: Yeah,

Chris Price: many years later.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. So I’m not the only one who had to do a lot of waiting. Um, but I will say in the in-between years, like once I moved to la, um, I ended up in a relationship that. I thought was headed toward marriage, and this was in 2003 and I brought the person home, they met the family, everything.

But I have to say in God’s loving kindness, I was in a prayer meeting and someone was praying over me and she warned me from God that it was about to be over, which didn’t make any sense because we’d just taken this trip together. But his loving kindness to me was to make sure I wasn’t totally blindsided by [00:08:00] it.

So I even knew before him that he was gonna break up with me ’cause I never would’ve broken up with him. Like that wasn’t on my plan. I thought we were headed down the aisle. And so after, when he did do what God said he was gonna do, um, of course it was devastating. It didn’t mean it wasn’t. More painful.

And it was at eight, uh, months of darkness for me. It was like the worst depression I’ve ever experienced. But at the same time, one of the things God gave me at that time to hold onto when this person was praying over me, warning me it was gonna be over, she said, but God wants you to know you have a lot of joy sent before you.

You are going to get married someday. Didn’t tell me how long it was gonna be. But the other thing was, um, a promise that God was about to open. A new door for me in my profession for the first time ever, um, which turned into being the ultimate gift, which was my first feature film, which gave me something fun to work on for a little while.

That was good and distracting and uh, that was a beautiful thing. Um, but also. He healed me of that depression, like after the eight [00:09:00] long months. It was Easter Sunday of 2024 when all of a sudden that oppression was gone and I was a different person the next day, and I was ready for a job like that. Once the ultimate gift came around, because the first time they tried to offer me the job, I was so depressed.

I wasn’t inspired and I didn’t get it. They came back to me a year later, I was ready for it. And so God, in his divine timing. Actually held that gift for me, um, which I am eternally grateful for because it totally changed my professional life. Um, but in the meantime, you know, um, I always feel like he likes me to write about things that, um, give me.

The chance to share about my angst. And one of those was, as you mentioned before, never the bride. It was as a screenplay first before Renee Gutridge. And I did it as a novel. Um, and that, that just basically came from a moment of me walking down the street praying. ’cause I did a lot of prayer walking. And I’m like, why don’t you just put a sign on my head that says never the choice?

Because there are these people that I liked and they didn’t like me for seven years [00:10:00] straight, uh, in this waiting period between the last guy. And then when Chris and I. Finally reconnected. But that, of course, everything becomes an inspiration for me to write about.

Chris Price: Now, while I think

Dawn Pruszkowski: there’s a lot of people that can identify with that though.

Chris Price: Yeah.

Dawn Pruszkowski: So how many times I thought it was on my f my forehead. Yeah.

Chris Price: Well, and the funny thing is, while she was waiting, going through her stuff, I, I was going through my own share of stuff and, um, you know, in that when you’re in that waiting mode and you’re. You know, you’re desiring to be married and to meet someone.

It’s just, it could be tough, you know? And I remember there was a time where it literally felt like I had, I was wearing girl repellent. I mean, literally there was, I mean, you know, it’s like nobody would go out with me, you know? Um, not even just on kind of a casual for fun, just, Hey, I wanna go see a movie, kind of, you know?

So. It was a pretty dry season, and I remember just going to the [00:11:00] Lord. Just kidding. I, I, I remember just going to the Lord and I was, I finally got kind of really tired of it and I said, okay, you know, Lord, just tell me, you know, do, do you really have somebody for me or am I gonna be, is it gonna be just me and you?

Just, I, I really wanna know just bottom line at just. Let me know. And um, and he did confirm with me. He’s like, yeah, I do have somebody for you, but you just need to chill and relax and be patient and just trust me, you know? Um, and it was, uh, it was quite a, quite a walk to do that, so,

yeah.

Cheryl Price: Well, what was interesting too, that when I felt healed in from the depression and I felt ready, God told me.

You are ready, but he’s not. And so I was like, okay, I don’t want something before it’s finished. You know, I, I wanna wait and whatever. And you know, a year or two into that, you start to get impatient. And I remember around year six or so, I’m like, what kind of [00:12:00] moron did you choose for me? That’s still not ready for me.

But the interesting thing for him, the opposite side of that story was God told him I was ready, but he wasn’t. And it matched. And when we compared notes later, we had that to share. And tell me what that was like for you.

Chris Price: Yeah, so during that waiting period, I remember there was one morning where I had kind of one of those, I wasn’t quite sure if it was a dream or a vision or I was kind of, you know, half asleep or whatever.

But I remember just seeing this picture. And what I saw was there was a picture of a, of a lady, like a bride dressed in a, in a bridal gown, and she was holding her little bouquet and it’s like she was sitting on the steps of a church just kind of sitting there and she had her little bouquet out and she was just kind, just really forlorn and just sad looking, you know, like she’d been waiting for someone a really long time and just hadn’t shown up.

Cheryl Price: Gee, I wonder who that was.

Chris Price: Yeah, and, and I think that was the Lord’s way of saying, Hey buddy. [00:13:00] You know, you need to wake up and, you know, we’ve got some work to do here and you know, so, um, so it, it was number one, kind of a kick in the pants. And number two, it was also a confirmation that he did have someone for me and for me during that time.

You mentioned earlier that I’d. Did previous missions work. And for me, that’s kind of where my head space was, and that’s where I thought that the Lord would be taking me long term. And I’d also started playing guitar during that time and had gotten more creative and artsy. Um, and so I, I started to develop this vision for my life and what I thought the Lord was leading me into doing.

And so in order for me to, to. Turn my focus to Cheryl because I had some specific things that I was thinking that the Lord would bring in my wife, you know? Um, oh, and back to the vision of the bride that he showed me, I remember there was a few [00:14:00] specific things. It’s like her, her face was blurred out. I couldn’t see detail as far as that goes, but I remember noticing she had long, dark hair and she had kind of olive complexion, you know?

And so, um. So that’s kind of one of those things that stood out during this time. But, so I remember one night I was at this, um, like a, like a worship, time of worship and I remember just kind of feeling led to go and just kind of lay down some of those preconceived notions and ideas as far as like who I thought my wife would be.

You know, what she would look like. What we would be doing in the future. And I just kind of laid that stuff down. Mm-hmm. And it was probably, I think less than three months after I did that, that the Lord actually crossed our paths again.

Cheryl Price: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, and that, of course, this is a really fun story. Um, but before I get into that piece, I wanna share, there were two things that stood out to me [00:15:00] with him.

Like, I grew up with a lot of fears of dating and men, and that’s what finally Fearless is about that other autobiography. But what was interesting is I refused to ever go on singles sites. I, I, it was never gonna happen. And what was interesting to hear from him later is that he had a time where he was trying to do an online profile where he never would’ve found me.

Chris Price: Yeah.

Cheryl Price: And what did God do to you?

Chris Price: Yeah, I was, I, I’d gotten to the point where I was just really, really tired of just, you know. Really tired of the wagon. I thought, you know, I’m gonna go on Yahoo personals and set up a profile and just kind of just test the waters and see what happens, you know? So I’m sitting there on the computer, you know, typing up my profile, and it was literally like somebody tapped me on the shoulder and the Lord said, um, what are you doing?

And I was like, well, I’m filling out a profile. I’m tired of waiting on you. And he was like, well. All right. If you wanna do it that way, you [00:16:00] can, but just know that you’ll miss out on my very best for you. If you continue down this road, you can do it. ’cause I’m giving you the choice. But if you want my best, then you, you, you would do better to wait.

You know? Mm-hmm. And so I sat there for a minute. I literally considered it. Mm-hmm. And I thought, all right, well I sure wish you would hurry up. So I deleted my profile and you know, that was,

Cheryl Price: yeah,

Chris Price: that was that. But, uh, yeah.

Cheryl Price: So, which I’m very thankful for. Well, me

Chris Price: too now.

Cheryl Price: So then, um, that one year before we reconnected, which ironically was over Facebook, which I’ll get to that in a minute.

Um, I, when we re I, I had wrote the script for Never the Bride, and then I partnered with my novelist, Renee Gutridge, to release the book. And so in that story. Um, there’s lots of things like the girl is caught up with the best friend and she can’t see who God has for her type of situation, which later turned out to be matching my real [00:17:00] life.

Um, but when we did a press junket for their book release, I was on the radio talking to this host and I was telling him, I’m like, you know. God does this for people. God writes love stories because in Never Bride, God shows up as a character to offer to write a girl’s love story who’s too afraid to surrender her purple pen to him and she has to give up all that control.

And so what I told him, I said, it’s inspired by my life and my experience with God and my trust in him and all that. And he goes, well, this is how I heard the question. He probably didn’t say it this obnoxiously, but this is how I heard it. What business do you have offering hope to people when God hasn’t done it for you?

And so in the midst of it, I was just like, okay, Lord, just gimme the words. And he did. It was just like, well, because I have faith. This is a journey of faith. And I mean, I, God promised it to me. I believe it’ll happen. And so I get off the air. And I was like, God, don’t make a liar outta me, please. And so anyway, so what does he tell me to do next?

He says, start [00:18:00] writing. Finally the bride. I’m like, what the heck is finally the bride? It’s like, that’s the nonfiction version of this novel you just wrote. And I’m like. You mean for singles? He goes, yeah, you’re not gonna write it as good if you don’t write it while you’re single and while you’re in pain in the waiting.

And I’m like, fine, I’m gonna write it so fast so that you can bring me the end of the story. Because I am not gonna publish a book called Finally The Bride without being a bride. Right. And I’m like, and please tell me, it doesn’t mean finally the bride of Christ, that that’s gonna be the end of my story.

You know, not that I don’t wanna be that as well. Um, so anyway, so I wrote the whole book. It was in under a year, and I. Sat and I’m ready. I’m like, okay, Lord, here’s my offering. And then of course, I’m still on a shelf, um, waiting. And so I couldn’t continue the chapters. But then all of a sudden, this best friend walks into my life, um, who a, a new person, great friend.

Um, and that I started to really fall for. And, um, we, but we lived local to each other, but we spent like three hours a day on the phone with each other. It was a very confusing friendship. I like to call it the best friends and them where someone acts like they like you, but you don’t really know where you stand or they’re not [00:19:00] ready for you yet.

That kind of junk. And so I’m setting that up on purpose because this ties a lot to how he responded to me when, um, I mysteriously at the same time. Um. I, I’m on Facebook, and you know what? They have that function, the people you may know. And we had a mutual friend in North Carolina where we both lived back in the nineties.

Um, and he was a friend of his and I was like, oh, I remember Chris, the cute guy from singles class. And so I hit back then, like, you could send a note with your friend request, um, that we still have a copy of it. I’m like, Hey Chris, I don’t know if you remember me, but. You know, we, I cast you in some of my shows.

I’m in Hollywood now being a screenwriter, and I even came back to North Carolina to make a movie a few years ago, which is where, um, ultimate gift shot. Anyway, so what happened next here?

Chris Price: Well, in the. In that waiting time period, I actually had started playing guitar and, and started playing quite a lot. I was never great, but I was pretty [00:20:00] solid and pretty consistent.

So I would play on a few local bands and on lots of different worship teams. I got invited to play quite a bit ’cause I was always, I always showed up. And then I was always ready to play and I knew my stuff when I showed up, so I, I got to play quite a bit. Um, I’d also started, um, with an interest in photography and one of the drummers on one of the worship teams was a master photographer.

And so I went and studied with him for about a year and, um. So that, that was, that was a lot of fun. So,

Cheryl Price: so I was no longer too artsy is the point.

Chris Price: That’s right, that’s right. So, uh, but with guitar, um, I started teaching guitar lessons and I was teaching lessons full time and actually second shooting weddings with, um, four or five different photographers in the Charlotte area.

And so one day I was in my car driving to a guitar lesson and um, I was driving down the [00:21:00] street and I thought. You know, I drove past this neighborhood and I thought, I think that was Cheryl’s neighborhood, the girl from, from singles class. And for some odd reason, I guess we had one of the singles events or something at their house, and I, I don’t know why I went to it, but I don’t know why I remembered.

You know, the neighborhood couldn’t take you to the house, but I knew where the neighborhood was. And now keep in mind, 10 years had gone by since she left to go to California and I stayed in North Carolina and once she left, she was just gone. And I, I lost, I lost track of her sister and her two, and I mean, she was just gone and so didn’t hear from her, didn’t think about her for a long time.

So I’m driving down the street and I noticed this neighborhood and I thought, gosh, I think that’s Cheryl’s neighborhood. And I thought, I wonder what ever happened to her. And I thought, nah. I’m sure by now she’s probably married and got, you know, a couple kids and [00:22:00] everything and has really moved on in life and, you know, so, you know, and it was just one of those kind of out of the blue kind of things.

Mm-hmm.

And so I just kept on. And so less than three days later after that random thought. I get this Facebook friend request from, you know who, and so I was like, well, that’s kind of odd, you know? And, but it really kind of, the, the timing of it and how it happened really kind of, you know, peaked my interest and got my attention.

And so I pulled up a Facebook page and of course I accepted the friend request, right? And so I go on a page and I’m, I’m like, you know, kind of. Semi face stalking her a little bit, just seeing what she’s been up to and in her profile Picture. It’s got a picture. She had a picture of her with these two little guys, with her in her profile, and I thought, yep, there you go.

I knew it. She’s married and those are her kids, you know? But once I kind of dug around a little [00:23:00] bit and kind of investigated a little further, I realized that those were her nephews. And so I was like, huh, that’s interest. And so, um, then I noticed that she wrote a book called Never the Bride. So I kind of checked out the book and when I pulled it up on, on Amazon and I looked at it and I saw the cover, there was a picture of a bride on there.

And I was like, Ooh. And then as soon as I saw the book, immediately I, I immediately went back to that vision that I saw, you know, of the sad bride holding the bouquet. And I was like, oh, that’s really weird. And so, mm-hmm. It just kind of really got my attention. Yeah. You know?

Cheryl Price: Yeah. And I can tell from his notes to me really early on, ’cause we didn’t talk on the phone at first.

It was about six months of emailing back and forth and or messaging and um,

Chris Price: she wouldn’t let me call her, by the way.

Cheryl Price: Yeah,

Chris Price: I asked but

Cheryl Price: had phone restriction is what he likes to call it.

Chris Price: She put me on phone restriction.

Cheryl Price: So, ’cause I wasn’t ready for that, [00:24:00] because I still had this other friend in my life who I was very interested in.

And I even warned him about that from the beginning. Um, because I was like, I didn’t wanna lead him on. And I’m like, yeah, I like this guy. But right now we’re just best friends. And, and how did you respond to that?

Chris Price: I kind of laughed, and to be honest, it was actually an encouragement to me, to be honest.

Because I knew what it was like because I had been that best friend

Cheryl Price: mm-hmm.

Chris Price: Before to other, to other girls, you know? And so when she told me that, I was like, ah. It was like Jim Carrey. So you tell him there’s a chance, you know? Yeah.

Cheryl Price: He was not deterred.

Chris Price: Nope. I was not.

Cheryl Price: And so I would say I went through for a while just sort of keeping him at arm’s length and then, um, all of a sudden.

Partway into this journey. Within that almost six months mark, I was getting ready to go home to Charlotte for Thanksgiving. ’cause my parents still were living in North Carolina at the time and we were talking about maybe finally seeing each other in person. Um, but also I started to notice the parallels of never the bride story with the best friend in that God’s [00:25:00] trying to introduce you to the right person and you just keep not seeing it.

And I went to one of my best mentors, she’s Susan Rohr, who directed these stones and has done a lot of co-writing with me and all that. Um, and has been with me from day one of this journey. Um, I went to her one day and I said, why do I get the feeling that you know who the best friend is this guy, and Chris is this guy, and I’ve just been too dumb to pay attention.

And she’s just looking at me like it took you long enough. Like she kind of was affirming it, but my heart still needed to cooperate. And so, um, when I went home, our first. Our first date was 16 hours, which I do not recommend.

Chris Price: Yeah, it was a long one.

Cheryl Price: I asked him, it was a long him, why he had these gorgeous photos from these um, waterfalls and I’m like, oh, can we go see those?

And he is like, sure, if you want to. And I didn’t realize it was gonna be like six hours each way and then four hours while we’re gone. So that’s a lot of conversation.

Chris Price: It was a long day in the car.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. And so, I mean, it was fun, but [00:26:00] it was awkward.

Chris Price: Yeah.

Cheryl Price: Even though we’d met before. Um, but

Chris Price: Well, but the thing was like, we had spent so much time communicating through email and text and that type of thing, uh, communicating from a distance.

Cheryl Price: Mm-hmm.

Chris Price: But we hadn’t been in each other’s presence. And that’s a different ball game. Yeah. It’s a, it’s a different thing.

Cheryl Price: Yeah.

Chris Price: So, you know, first date, you know, because on one hand you feel like you know this person because you’ve been communicating so much with them.

Cheryl Price: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Chris Price: But when you’re sitting there beside ’em in the car, it’s like.

It, it really was awkward.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. And so we ended that trip with a, well, I at least was not sure where the heck this was gonna go. And I was going back to LA for just a few weeks before Christmas and I was coming right back. Um, and I used a lot of that trip to pray about it. And, um, as soon as I got back to Charlotte, I went and, um, I had a great prayer time with my best friend’s family.

And the father of this family’s a counselor. And he goes, well, let me just ask you a question. He said, of these two guys that you’re talking about [00:27:00] in your life, I mean, I’m bawling my eyes out for hours about this situation. ’cause I’m like, I want to like him. I just want, you know. And he goes, well, which one of these two guys treat you in a Christlike manner?

And I’m like, well, no question Chris. I said, because every time I put up a boundary, he respected it. He didn’t try to push me beyond what I was ready for. He, when I told him, I mean, he, he jokes about being on bone restriction, but I was like, I had such a strange friendship being on the phone for three hours a day.

I didn’t wanna replace him. Because I’m like, that wasn’t, I didn’t think that would work out very well in his favor. So I was like, I don’t want that almost codependent kind of thing going on. And I’m like, I wanna like you for you and not just replace what I’m missing, because I had to cut that other person outta my life in order to give him a chance.

And so, um, once I had that counseling session with my friend’s dad, um, the very next day we were already planning to meet at his church in Charlotte. It was like the scales fell off my eyes and I saw him differently. The second he came outta his car and I, we meet in the [00:28:00] middle and I’m like, Ooh, he’s really cute.

And I just felt different. And then at the church service that day, they were having a prophetic prayer meeting, or for guests, it was like the regulars couldn’t go. But if you were a guest that day, you could sign up for a prayer session. And so he goes off to the bookstore to get me my free visitor’s book while I go and get prayed over by, it was like three or four people, strangers at a table.

Chris Price: And yeah, they didn’t know, and they didn’t even know me. So it’s not like there was any kind of, there was no connection at all to me.

Cheryl Price: Yeah.

Chris Price: So when she walked in,

Cheryl Price: yeah. And so I’m sitting there and they said that apparently they have rules they’re supposed to follow when they’re prophesying or whatever, and one of which is they’re not supposed to talk about future husbands.

And then the guy though, he’s like, I’m just gonna go out on a limb here and say that God’s been trying to give you a gift. You’ve been too blind to see it. He’s been right in front of you and he’s trying to give you your husband. And he’s like, down the hall. And I just kind of start laughing and I’m like, yeah, I kind of know that now.

And I only knew it like the day before because God healed me the day before and I never cried again about that whole [00:29:00] situation. And so I walk, I, I mean, I, I wrote everything down. It was a pretty long prayer session. I didn’t share it with him till the day we got engaged. But um, I went to the bookstore and he goes, how was the prayer time?

And I’m like. Very interesting. I said, maybe one day I’ll tell you about it, but I kept my mouth shut at first.

Chris Price: And for me, by that time, like I, I knew well before then that, that we were gonna end up getting married. I didn’t know how the Lord was gonna work it out. Um, but I just had a total peace. I’m like, well.

She’ll come around at some point, you know? So that was really nice that, that

Cheryl Price: Yeah.

Chris Price: You know, that that transition occurred mm-hmm. That Sunday.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. So by the end of that Christmas trip, we really knew we were gonna get married. It was just sort of a matter of when.

Chris Price: Yeah.

Cheryl Price: And then he came out in, uh, February for Valentine’s Week to visit LA for the first time ever.

’cause one of my original concerns was, um, I ain’t ever leave in LA and you, we don’t belong together ’cause you wanna go live in Africa. So I pretended with his missionary thing. I’m, I don’t. Ever wanna go to Africa, let alone be a missionary. So my [00:30:00] missions field is LA so that was one of my things I used against him in the beginning.

Chris Price: Funny though, I never, I’ve never been to Africa.

Cheryl Price: So, but you came out, I guess in, uh. To plan the proposal. I knew it was gonna happen that week, I just wasn’t sure when. And you decided not to do it Valentine’s Day? ’cause that would be cliche.

Chris Price: That’s right. So, yeah, well see. I, I see. I had a plan, um, number one, I had, um, gotten to know Susan by then too.

And so she and I were communicating a little bit back and forth and kind of she, who Susan, she gave me.

Cheryl Price: The one who knew it was him before me.

Chris Price: Yeah.

Cheryl Price: Oh, okay. My mentor.

Chris Price: Yeah, so, so she gave me a couple of pointers and some cool insights as far as a, a few things to, to keep in mind. So, um, remember I was second shooting weddings during that time of doing photography as well.

Well come to find out that one of the photographers that I was second shooting for. She was going to be out in California, in the LA area at [00:31:00] the same time that I was coming out to visit Cheryl. And so I was like,

Hmm,

hmm. So what I did was I, I posed it to Cheryl, like, oh, let’s have couples pictures taken, you know, and so.

Uh, the photographer’s name is Lisa Crates. She’s a wonderful person, wonderful photographer too, so I’m so thankful that, that she went along with the plan. So, so we were gonna meet and one of her favorite places was the Santa Monica Pier. And so we went to have a couple’s pictures taken on the beach and at the Santa Monica Pier, but I had worked it out with Lisa in advance.

I said, Hey, you know. I’m gonna propose to her. So I, I want you to catch the actual proposal because most of the time what happens is when someone gets engaged, they’ll go do a reenactment. And that’s kind of where most of the photos come from. Well, I kind of wanted her to capture the real thing.

Mm-hmm.

And so I told her kind of where I [00:32:00] was planning on, on proposing and everything. So, so she was all set and ready for the signal from me. So, you know, so we took a lot of photos and had a great time. And then we walked to the end of the Santa Monica Pier. And so then I pull out this little ring box and I get that on way in one knee and I open the box and I lift it up to her.

Well, in the ring box was not only a ring, but there were also a couple of, um, m and ms that were personalized because that’s kind of, I kind of, I, to be honest, I kind of ripped that off from the. Proposal scene in never the Bride. So I thought she would appreciate that. Yeah. And I

Cheryl Price: really did. I was very happy he did that.

Chris Price: Yeah. And so, and before then, I didn’t know you could get personalized m and ms. Mm-hmm. But you can. Mm-hmm. And so I had a few of them made up and they had things written on ’em, like, um. You know, marry me. Um, I choose you, you know, those kinds of things. And so, you know, when I opened that up and, and [00:33:00] asked her, she was like, oh my goodness, you know, and it was great.

Cheryl Price: Well, think about my line, never the choice. And yet he says, I choose you. Like that meant a lot to me.

Chris Price: Yeah. And Lisa was there and snagged the whole thing. So we, we have those photos,

Cheryl Price: so wonderful. What wonderful also was kind of neat was, um, I had just inherited my grandmother’s engagement ring. Um, and I wanted to use it.

I didn’t want an engagement ring, so somehow he needed to find out that information. Um, and so my family took care of that. And then Susan also helped and suggested like, find a, why don’t you propose with a wedding band that’ll match the ring? I, in a silly way, actually tried to leave that engagement ring out where he’d see it before we went to go get proposed.

And, ’cause I didn’t know his plan was to find like this, you could see on the, uh, the ring that he bought me to go with my grandmother’s ring. And it was funny that, ’cause I didn’t know that was a plan. When we’re getting ready to leave, when I think he’s gonna propose it. I’m like, he didn’t take the ring.

Nobody told him,

Chris Price: Hey, you big dummy, aren’t you forgetting [00:34:00] something over here?

Cheryl Price: Because I had a, her picture, um, the day she died, I was holding her hand for three hours, um, before she passed away. And she was still wearing this up until that day. And so I draped it on a necklace over that photo hoping he would notice.

But anyway, he didn’t need it because he already had his own plan.

Chris Price: That’s right.

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Cheryl Price: as you might remember from earlier in the story. Um. All right. Like, well first of all, we did end up getting, uh, married at, um, [00:35:00] his sister’s ranch in North Carolina, which I wanted. This was so funny because in never the bride, the girl gets married at the family home and she just happened to have a family home that was beautiful and like the living room had this stone walls with, um, a cross etched into it and it was a

Chris Price: slate fireplace.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. And so I was like, uh, you mind if I get married at your house? Because it was nice to have a way to have that parallel. So that worked out really well. Um, and it was a gorgeous day with lots of our family and friends that were in North Carolina. Um, but I, I just wanna bring in the irony that, as I told you before, I was never, ever leaving California.

And then the next thing you know, we only lived there four years and God was really loud to both of us, that it was time to move.

Chris Price: Yeah. Well, and what was neat was we, we had, um. We had family still in North Carolina and some in Florida. And while we were out in California, I had started working at a [00:36:00] trailer house, um, in la.

Like movie

Cheryl Price: trailers.

Chris Price: Yeah. Not, not making mobile homes. Um, it was, it was so funny because I started out working there. That’s where

Dawn Pruszkowski: my mind went. Yeah.

Chris Price: Yeah. Mobile homes. I, okay. I started out working there as a pa answering, answering the phone, and I can’t tell you how many times people would say you guys sail trailers.

I’m looking for one. I tow behind my, my truck. You know, and I’m like, no, it’s movie trailers. It’s not that kind. And so, but anyway, so I’d started working there and worked up to being an assistant editor and was in that role for about a year and a half I think. And so I joined with, there were two divisions to the overall company.

There was a content side and trailer side, and I actually was able to work at both, but I joined the content side. Well, one day, um, my boss called me in his office and he said, Hey, just wanted to give you a heads up that we’re actually selling the content side of the business, so you’re gonna be out of a job here shortly.

But they kept me around, thankfully long [00:37:00] enough for about a month extra. While they were winding down that side of the business, just in case they needed, um, an extra set of hands with the AE role there. Mm-hmm. So when I came home and shared the news with Cheryl, we thought, well, ’cause we kind of felt like the Lord was, was getting us kind of prepped for a move anyway.

Mm-hmm.

And we thought, well. We can either stay here in job search or we can go ahead and make the jump back to the East coast and job search there. So we were praying about where to go, and the Lord really kind of highlighted the Atlanta area to us, um, because it was kind of equidistant between family members and also too because the industry was really growing at that time in the Atlanta area.

So,

Cheryl Price: and we’ve been really blessed as far as coming here in the people that we’ve met here. Yeah, I mean, you’ve had, uh, one. Great love story on your show. Cameron and BJ Anette, and they were one of the first couples we met here. And ended up casting, uh, Cameron in a couple of my movies. Um, well, my [00:38:00] TV show I had a, a say in the movie was a happy accident that I’m like, wait, you’re, you’re doing my movie?

That’s so cool. Extraordinary. Yeah. And um, but being able to be here, like where we knew we were supposed to be was awesome. Um, and we, that’s when we had the chance to make my TV series these Stones, which is a faith-based show. Yeah. Um, which kind of actually. Is an interesting segue into the other, what I would call the most difficult part of our marital journey, um, which eventually will tie back to something that God led me to write in that show.

Chris Price: Yeah,

Cheryl Price: so,

Chris Price: well, you know how a lot of times when you’re, when you’re single and you’re about to get married, you’ll get words, words of wisdom, you know, from, from some people that you know, kind of want to. Level, set your expectations about marriage and mm-hmm. You know? Mm-hmm. And, and it’s like we heard the gamut of stuff.

It’s like, you know, we heard, oh, the first year is just, oh, [00:39:00] drudge, it’s awful, it’s horrendous. But if you can suck it up and make it through that first year, it gets better.

Cheryl Price: Yeah.

Chris Price: And then we had other people that said, well, the first year was great, and then it all downhill from there. Boy, it stinks, you know,

Cheryl Price: which our first year was a blast.

We were like, what the

Chris Price: heck, heck are people

Cheryl Price: talking

Chris Price: about? You know? And so I think some of that was, it’s a honeymoon.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Yeah.

Chris Price: What’s that?

Dawn Pruszkowski: All year? I said, it’s a honeymoon all year long. What are you

Chris Price: talking about? That’s exactly right. Yeah. You know, and I think for us, um, we were sim we were so similar in a lot of ways and we have very similar love languages, so that kind of helped.

Us, I think.

Mm-hmm.

And I know that people say opposites attract, and that’s true to a point, but I think sometimes those things that are opposite that attract you to someone in the beginning can kind of wear on you later on too. Yeah. So, um, we found that friendship is a, is a great bond.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm.

Chris Price: Um, especially in marriage, you know, so, um, yeah.

So anyway. Y you know, a lot

Dawn Pruszkowski: of people [00:40:00] have. Can I say something too? I, I think too, it’s beautiful, um, reflecting back where Cheryl, you were, God said you are ready, but he wasn’t, he was still getting him ready. Yeah. And I, I think about your creative, that creative thing because it’s like he had to build that passion within Chris

Cheryl Price: he did

Dawn Pruszkowski: to fit your passions.

And I think it’s so fun to be able to share. In each other’s like gifts. Mm-hmm.

And

Dawn Pruszkowski: passions and do creative things forward. And that’s part of that whole,

Cheryl Price: yeah, yeah, yeah,

Chris Price: for sure. And that has definitely been helpful.

Cheryl Price: What was really neat too was after I was telling him I’m not moving to Africa type of thing, um, he watched Ultimate Gift and he came back to me and said something that really helped me feel at peace with this.

Even feeling in the beginning there might have been an incompatibility for our future plan. And he said, you know, I watched your movie and I realized your movie can touch millions of people. He’s like, [00:41:00] it’s not that there’s anything wrong being a missionary. He’s like, I can touch one life at a time. He says, but now I understand why.

What you do is also a missions field.

Chris Price: Yeah.

Cheryl Price: And I’m like, oh, he actually gets it now.

Chris Price: Yeah.

Cheryl Price: You know?

Chris Price: Yeah. But you know. But like when you’re going into marriage, you hear all these stories and things about stuff and for us, marriage was, was great and uh, a lot of couples sometimes will have a lot of conflict between the two of them.

And we just really haven’t had that, you know, ’cause we

Cheryl Price: like still to this day, almost 15 years in.

Chris Price: Yeah. ’cause one of the things, it’s like, you know, we’re on the same team, we’re not competitors, you know, um, but where our challenges really came in, um. In the, the 15 years of marriage. The, the two biggest challenges I think that we’ve, that we’ve faced are, um, she’s had some, some physical challenges with her health, so that’s a big one.

And then the other was infertility. So we tried [00:42:00] for years,

Cheryl Price: eight years.

Chris Price: Yeah. To, to get pregnant and to have to have a kid, or we wanted to have a couple.

Cheryl Price: Mm-hmm.

Chris Price: Um, but it just, it didn’t happen.

Cheryl Price: We knew, like, I think for a while in that eight year period, he had a lot more faith. Like, well, God made us wait so long to be together, so why, why wouldn’t he show up in this as well?

And I think I believed like that for a long time as well. And it’s, in some ways, I think it might’ve made it a little bit harder. Um, but it was like. At every time I had a health challenge that started literally, uh, like clockwork. We got married in May of 2011. I had my first big health crisis January 1st, 2012, and it never stopped.

And every single time something came up. It almost always tied back to us trying to have kids. And I could tell you why and how all of these things connected. And one time I [00:43:00] wrote a list out of what did I go through for eight years straight. Every single one of them was, that was a problem because of that.

And I’m like, um, to jump to the end of that eight year time period, we, um, I found out I had a benign tumor that was. The size of a grapefruit and it was causing a myriad of issues. It was just like, if I didn’t take care of it, it was gonna be bad. And, but to make that decision, I had to give up any chance I would ever get pregnant after the eight years of hope.

And, um, when I found that out, I was like. Is that me closing a door on God though? Like if I’m supposed to still be believing he’s gonna show up like he did with our love story, then I’m gonna close the door on him. Like, how does he feel about that? And so I wrestled with that for a while before I finally decided to go through with the surgery, which was a little over five years ago now.

And it, it was one of those things where. I thought I was gonna be emotionally fine once it was over. Like, oh, [00:44:00] the decision is here, I’m gonna be fine. Well, no, I wasn’t, I I was still really mad at God and for about one more year and this, there was this day that I was at a Christian film conference and I was, I had been so angry about everything and it was almost to the one year mark.

And then God just gave me this beautiful gift of a job. It was a kid’s animated show. And I was like, did you just bless me while I’m in the middle of railing at you about stuff? Like, and then I, and it was just, for some reason it was a, it was one of the Kendrick brothers, um, retreats, uh, conferences and theirs are always so spiritually based.

I had all these God encounters all week long, and by the end of that week I’m like, okay. I’m gonna do things differently now. And then also it same week, we decided as a my new production company that we wanted to make this TV series called The Stones. And as the showrunner creator of the show, I had the chance to pick six storylines of what we were gonna do for those first six episodes.

And then of course, [00:45:00] I think you can probably follow along by now that that’s when God says, Hey. Would you like to write your story now? Would you like to take the battle you went through with infertility and put it in the show? And so in the concept of the show, there’s these Bible characters from the Old Testament that show up and they have to work undercover today and act like they belong today.

And um, I was like, okay, well we’ll use Sarah because she had experienced infertility. I’m gonna put her in this episode and she has to pretend she’s from this era until it’s time to tell the girl who she really is. And so I was like, well, the, the. Boldness of that episode is when Sarah thinks she’s there to give her, uh, this time next year you’ll have a baby.

Hope Sarah finds out that’s not what she’s here for and tries to quit the job. And, um, we hired Erin Bethe of Fireproof to play me in this episode and it was really fun to see all of that come to life in a storyline that dared to tell the story of what happens when God says no. And you still have to be okay [00:46:00] with him in the middle of it.

Because that’s the, that’s the journey that I had to go on, and it is the episode that we hear most often is, um, the one that people relate to. But the beauty to me of that proved to me that I was very healed after writing it. ’cause I, I mean, I went through some emotionalness like trying to write it, but not in a bad way.

I love being emotional when I’m writing. Um, I decided to cast myself as a non-speaking nurse in the scene. That was exactly something that I went through, which was, I am at. The doctor’s office holding an ultrasound of a tumor while everyone else around me is holding ultrasounds of babies. And I remember living through that moment when I wasn’t healed yet because I hadn’t gone through the surgery or anything.

And I remember like, wow, this is like everyone around me has no idea what I am dealing with because they’re also happy. And so I decided to put that scene in the show and I played the nurse behind the counter. It was the very first scene we shot of the whole series. And I got my purple scrubs. ’cause you know, I’m very [00:47:00] obsessive about the color purple.

So I requested those from the wardrobe department and it was the first scene we shot of that day. And I’m just walking around all giddy, happy and like, so even some of them were like, are you okay with this? Are you doing right? And I’m like, yeah, this is fun. This is my story. You know, even though this was a horrible memory in my life, it didn’t feel like it anymore.

Mm-hmm. And I felt like. God brought purpose and one of the verses he’s always used in my life as Romans 8 28, about how he can use anything and turn it around for good. And to me, I got to walk through that, through doing the show.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Yeah, that’s beautiful.

Cheryl Price: And he got to be in that episode too.

Chris Price: Well, and I, it was really cool because I actually, um, shot all the BTS footage for the show,

Cheryl Price: like behind the scenes.

Chris Price: Yeah. So all the behind the scenes stuff I filmed and, um, did most of the editing for the behind the scenes stuff for the show. So it was fun.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. Yeah, it was really cool. It

Chris Price: was a good time.

Cheryl Price: So

Dawn Pruszkowski: that’s fun.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. So I think what’s been neat for us, because you know, like I [00:48:00] said, we celebrate 15 years coming this May, um, is that we really have had a very peaceful marriage and if we had made the wrong choice, there’s, there’s times we talk about the people we thought we wanted, the people we thought we wanted, we were praying for, and we’re like, I would not have had such a good life or a peaceful life.

And our challenges within that eight year time period. I mean, I hate that I personally let it be a cloud that followed our marriage around, but I’m glad that it wasn’t our inner conflict.

Chris Price: They were external challenges rather than internal between us.

Cheryl Price: Mm-hmm.

Chris Price: Yeah.

Cheryl Price: Yeah,

Dawn Pruszkowski: yeah.

Cheryl Price: So, and

Dawn Pruszkowski: you had a team member fighting with you instead of against

Chris Price: you.

That’s right.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Yes.

Chris Price: Yeah,

Dawn Pruszkowski: yeah,

Chris Price: yeah. And so, you know. It just kind of, for me, it goes to show just the importance of really waiting on the Lord and trusting him.

Yeah.

You know, and that’s one of those things, um, I, I am a firm believer that the Lord gives us choice.

Mm-hmm.

I don’t think [00:49:00] he forces us into anything.

You know, like, like when the Lord, you know, went to Joshua and said, choose you, choose this day who you’ll serve. You know? Yeah. So I think we have that same choice that we can choose. To go out on our own, kinda like the Yahoo personals, you know? Or we can choose to do things the Lord’s way, especially if we, if we know that he’s leading us in a certain direction or a certain path.

Mm-hmm. You know? So I think it’s always wise to go with the Lord’s plan, you know? Mm-hmm. And as far as like being married to me, other than choosing the Lord. And putting your faith in him as your Lord and Savior who you marry is the next biggest choice you will ever make in your, in your entire life. If you make a bad financial choice, you can typically recover from that, you know?

But if you make a horrible marriage choice or life partner choice on the front [00:50:00] end, boy that could, that’s really hard to, uh. You can recover from it, but I, but it’s really tough, you know?

Yeah.

And a, a marriage takes two. You can have one person that’s trying as hard as they want to, but if the other one just won’t engage in or not doing their part, it’s just not gonna work.

You know? So it’s always wise to go with the Lord’s choice.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. And I think like if I were to encapsulate what I learned through all of this, it’s that message of. Are you willing to surrender the Pentagon and let him write the better story because mm-hmm. If I were writing my story, it wouldn’t have gone the way that it did.

And I, if I had kept that control and it, and I think any of your listeners here, I mean, it can translate to any part of life. It doesn’t have to be about marriage. Um, is it, is there any area of our lives that we are clutching that pen, like my trusty purple pen here, clutching it too tightly to try to force something in it that maybe God doesn’t have for us?

You know? [00:51:00] He has different gifts for all of his kids. He makes different decisions for all of us. Mm-hmm. But the, the main thing is trying to make sure we’re in prayer and listening to what do you want? And being open to the fact that his answer may not actually match what you hope for sometimes. Yeah.

And that has to be okay with us too.

Chris Price: And the future that he has for you may not look like what you had envisioned it or picture it, you know. But most of the time, quite honestly, it’s usually better than what we picture anyway. Much

Dawn Pruszkowski: better. Yeah. Really quickly, what could you just share, like answers for people are going like, but I’ve got to do that.

Yahoo. Be, um, search because I am so lonely, I need somebody. So what, what can you offer to people who.

Cheryl Price: Have

Dawn Pruszkowski: that

Cheryl Price: argument. One of the things I’m so thankful one of my mentors said to me is, keep busy while you’re waiting. And that doesn’t mean keep busy going on Yahoo personals and trying to find that person.

But I think my many examples where God’s like, I got a [00:52:00] project for you to do, and you’re not gonna do it if you’re too busy going out on dates all the time. You’re not gonna write these things correctly if you’re already happy, you know? And so that can translate into whatever somebody’s life is. You’re not just here to marry somebody, and there are other things that you can be doing with your life that.

Let God lead what that is. You know, I mean, I, I would even do that now with, um, in between movie writing jobs. I’m like, well, I’m gonna find something else to do that matters, and that is part of my legacy to leave behind and I don’t need to waste time just because I’m not doing what I wanted to be doing right in the season of life.

What about you, babe?

Chris Price: Yeah, and I, I, I agree. I, I think that if someone is really lonely, I think it’s wise to get around a group of other believers and, um, get involved in, in a ministry or, or some way of serving other people as well. But the other thing too, and I don’t know if any of your listeners can relate to this, but I was, I was 40 when we got married [00:53:00] and I had never been married before.

And, um, the last. The person that I dated prior to Cheryl was, was 10 years.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Mm-hmm.

Chris Price: Before that. So I was 30 I think, when, when she and I broke up. So that’s 10 years. Mm-hmm. In a very critical age range. And what happened was, for me, it’s like I would, I, I had a group of friends, they all got married off. And this is no knock on anybody.

’cause I, I get it and I understand it, but most married people wanna hang out with other married people. So I had a group of friends, they all got married and I was by myself. I went and made another group of friends. They all got married and I was by myself. And after about the third or fourth round of that, it’s like, man, you know, so the other thing that I would say is, um, during those times, press into the Lord, you know, and for me, not.

Uh, I was serving in the church and being around other people, so I [00:54:00] wasn’t technically alone, but I also took that time and really pressed into the Lord and had some, just some amazing experiences and encounters with him, and he took me through this whole process. There was a period of about a year. Where, um, I was able to, because of some scheduled things, I was able to spend like an hour, hour and a half with him a day, you know?

Mm-hmm. And I would just be in his word. I would go take walks or go jogging and just really just, just get alone with the Lord. And he took me through this process of amazing spiritual growth during that time. And, um, it was just an amazing intimate time with the Lord. And had I have not pressed into him, I would’ve missed out on a lot of that.

Hmm. And so he grew me so much during that time that actually prepared me for some other things to come.

Mm-hmm.

And it really just solidified my relationship with him. So that’s the other thing I would say is really just press into the Lord in those times.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Very good. [00:55:00] Wonderful, wonderful story. Wonderful words of wisdom.

I love all of this and everyone needs to check out. All of your projects, your books, your TV show, your movies, everything, where, where can they find, um, your, your movies, your TV show.

Cheryl Price: Yeah. Um, I have all of them listed on my writing website, which no big surprise is called Purple pen works.com. Purple pen works.com.

We also have finally one.com spelled out ONE, um, for our future marriage ministry because yes, one day we do really hope to get into writing our marriage books. We’ve started them but have had to abandon them for the sake of working on movies. Um, I’m also, most of my stuff is all on Amazon under Cheryl McKay, because that was, I started working in this.

Field before we got married. So, um, if they look up Cheryl McKay on Amazon, they’ll find all of the books and series. So, um, but yeah, we would love to hear from people. Um, I’m also on Facebook. He is never on [00:56:00] Facebook, so I give him all of these little love notes on Facebook that he never reads. So I, I already found

you

Dawn Pruszkowski: on Facebook.

He doesn’t need to go back.

Cheryl Price: Yeah, that’s right. So, but yeah. So, um, but yeah, I really appreciate you having us to share our story and, um, so we’re grateful to God for it, but we also hope that it encourages other people who might be in a waiting season about any part of.

Dawn Pruszkowski: Absolutely. Oh, I do. I’m so appreciative that you shared your story.

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