Most of us love going out for a casual lunch date with our sweetie. Unlike dinner dates, lunch dates are no-frills, no-nonsense meals where you can just enjoy good conversation and a good meal.
One young couple recently went out to eat lunch at McAlister's Deli, but they didn't notice the woman next to them staring intently.
As they looked at the menu to decide what to eat, they also didn't notice that woman take out her phone and sneakily take a picture.
The stranger, Michelle Torino-Barcelos, was at the restaurant with her husband, but she couldn't take her eyes off the young couple.
After snapping the picture, Michelle waited at her seat until the couple finished eating. Then she approached them to ask about their matching tattoos.
What the couple told her totally stunned her — so much so that she decided to post about it on the Facebook page Love What Matters.
[H/T Love What Matters]
After Michelle posted the lunch date story on Facebook, the post immediately went viral.
In less than a day, it had over 16,000 reactions and over 1,900 shares.
Michelle wrote:
My husband and I were having our late lunch at McAlister’s Deli when I noticed a guy seated on our opposite side of the table waiting for his food.
What caught my attention was the words written in his tattoo on his left arm.
It says, "Together we serve" with a cross sign before it.
I told my husband to discretely look at his tattoo, and see how beautiful its meaning is.
I told my husband, it can have double meanings.
The word "we" may mean as we, as a whole, serving God, or "we" can also mean him, together with his other half; it can be his girlfriend or his wife. That I am not so sure of…
To my delight, I discretely took a photo of the guy and showed his tattoo to my husband.
After a couple of minutes, a lady sat in front of him and I whispered to my husband : 'Hey hon, they both have the same tattoo on their left arms!'
I thought, it was like the sweetest thing ever that I saw from a couple, having that same kind of tattoo written on their arms! I was thinking, #RelationshipGoals!
But my heart melted more when they started holding each other's hands as they prayed before eating! I was blown away!
Not only by seeing how sweet they were but by just simply being bold enough in professing their faith in public.
And for me, that is really what a relationship goal must be!
As we were enjoying our meal, my eyes were still glued at this couple near our table.
So I told my husband that as soon as we finished eating, I would love to come to the couple and approach them.
Just to say that we were blessed and inspired by just looking at them, their tattoo, and their faith and love for God.
And I did! I excused myself and introduced myself and my husband to them, and just told them how happy and inspired we are looking at them.
And we found out that they just got married a couple of months ago and that they are actually working for the United States Army!
In my heart, not only that they want to serve the country together, they also want to serve God together, and that is what their tattoo really means.
And that is the best #RelationshipGoal ever!
The couple was overwhelmed, as they did not realize the impact of what their tattoos and their actions of faith depicted towards us. They even asked us if they could pray for us!
For the first time in our entire lives, never did we experience strangers praying for us!
Inside that cafe, all four of us held each other's hands, bowed our heads down, as this beautiful couple from the U.S. Army prayed for me and my husband!
They prayed that we may always be blessed, and that we may continue to be a blessing to everyone else, and may our love for God prosper and grow just as God's love and grace overflows in our lives.
How amazing that moment is!
And just like the line of the song we’ve heard from the church this morning, it says, ‘Your love never fails, never gives up, never runs out of me.’
That is exactly how we feel right after that encounter with the lovely couple from the Army.
May God always bless and protect them, and may their lives always be a blessing, too, as they serve God and their country together.
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