Two secret Christians found each other in an arranged marriage miracle

Editor’s note: This effort is adapted from "The DNA of a Doctor: How Upbringing, Culture, and Unbridled Ambition Curates Achievement" (Post Hill Press, 2026)

Both of my grandmothers, surviving successful 2 abstracted tiny villages successful India miles isolated from each other, had each secretly go believers successful Jesus. At that time, successful that environment, it was unsafe to beryllium a Christian. Becoming a believer would person disgraced your family.

Neither grandma hid her religion from her children, though they did from everyone else. While astir of their offspring went backmost to practicing Hinduism erstwhile they married, my dada and mom, independently and unsocial of each their galore brothers and sisters, had each developed a beardown Christian faith.

They conscionable didn't cognize this astir each other.

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My parents came from antithetic worlds. My begetter arrived successful America successful 1975 with $7 successful his pocket. He had tally distant from location arsenic a teenager, slept connected bid presumption benches, and enactment himself done schoolhouse against his ain father's wishes. My parent broke barriers of her own, graduating from aesculapian schoolhouse successful India successful the 1970s erstwhile fewer women were educated astatine all. Both had sacrificed everything for a bigger life.

Dr. Smita R. Ramanadham's parents connected their wedding day. (Dr. Smita R. Ramanadham)

When my begetter returned to India successful 1978 to find a bride, helium met my parent done her younger member astatine a autobus station. She had a aesculapian degree, her ain ideas and spoke her mind. But connected this occasion, her brothers and uncles made things clear: she was not to speak. She should not marque oculus contact. And determination would beryllium nary notation of her faith. Anything she said could disgrace the household name.

Four days later, my parents were joined astatine 4:50 a.m. successful a Hindu ceremonial conducted by a Hindu priest. Neither had breathed a connection astir their concealed faith.

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On their honeymoon, portion my begetter was successful the shower, my parent sat successful the edifice country flooded with doubt. "I don't adjacent cognize this person," she thought. "What person I done?" She pulled retired her Bible and leafed done it, seeking comfort.

My dada came backmost into the room. She stood up and rapidly tried to fell the Bible down her back.

"What are you hiding?" helium asked.

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"Nothing," she said.

"We cannot fell things from each other," my dada told her.

Reluctantly, she showed him what was successful her hands.

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"Praise God!" helium proclaimed.

The likelihood of this happening successful an arranged matrimony successful India astatine that clip were little than miniscule. Two concealed Christians, from 2 abstracted villages, raised by 2 grandmothers who had independently travel to faith, uncovering each different done a accidental brushwood astatine a autobus station. It was unheard of. A miracle.

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God had brought them together.

Dr. Smita R. Ramanadham grew up the kid of a miracl marriage. (Dr. Smita R. Ramanadham)

While this isn't my ain story, it's inactive 1 of my favorites to tell. My parents had led 2 wholly abstracted lives. They were strangers successful each consciousness of the word. And yet, they were created for each other.

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Those of Christian religion similar maine judge that God has a program for each of us, which whitethorn oregon whitethorn not enactment up with the plans we marque for ourselves. We tin try, but we cannot ever foretell oregon program each facet of our lives. Sometimes the detour is not a failure. It is protection. It is redirection.

I judge we are each being led somewhere, adjacent erstwhile we cannot spot the path.