“Lord, pull me closer to who I’m meant to be close to, and push me away from the one I’m not meant to be with,” was the prayer Maddi Garrett said three times before eventually dating Liam Baumgardner. Garrett and Baumgardner had come to John Brown with the intention of not dating their first year of college. In fact, Baumgardner didn’t expect anything besides working how God wanted him to. Still, God had other plans for these two, what Garrett calls “a specific reason.”