I was so glittery-eyed when Oral and I got married! To tell the truth, I didn’t know much about the man I was marrying. I only knew that I was supposed to marry him, because God had placed it in my heart two years earlier when we met at an old-fashioned camp meeting in Sulphur, Oklahoma.

     After the first service I wrote in my diary, “Tonight I met my future husband. He is tall and handsome. His name is Oral Roberts.” But not once did he ask me for a date during that week!

     We went our separate ways, and I took a teaching position in Texas.

     After two years we began writing to each other, and before long, Oral and his mother came to Texas on a weekend trip. We became engaged during that visit and were married on Christmas Day, 1938, in a 10-minute wedding ceremony that brought us together for eternity. To say that we didn’t know each other very well would be an understatement.

     Early in his healing ministry, Oral conducted three-week crusades and would be exhausted when he came home. I would fix his favorite foods and give him plenty of rest. I wanted his time at home to be as “normal” as possible. But in reality, with our busy schedules and demands on our time, we were learning to live without needing each other to make life complete.

     One night Oral said, “Evelyn, there’s something wrong. We’re growing apart.”

     “Well, we love each other, but we’re just so busy with normal life,” I replied.

     He said, “Evelyn, I don’t want us to have a ‘normal’ life. I want always to be sweethearts.”

     That night we got down on our knees and talked to God about our marriage and this problem. Soon we were in one accord with the Lord. We felt as though we had just gotten married again. We are sweethearts and always will be.

     Since that night, Oral and I have often had “prayer meetings” with the Lord to harmonize our thinking and planning. These are precious times when two people whose lives have become one can also come into oneness with the heavenly Father’s will. These moments have kept our marriage supremely happy and have helped us to synchronize the job of living both a public and private life consistently and abundantly.

     Yes, throughout the years there have been lonely hours when he was away, and our life together has taken many turns. But I’ve always been thankful to God that the commitment I made to Oral Roberts, and the commitment he made to me 66 years ago, were for a lifetime of joy together.

Evelyn Roberts went home to be with the Lord in 2005. Her husband, Oral Roberts, went home to be with the Lord in 2009.