A man and woman spotted each other on the morning New York-to-Washington air shuttle. Sparks flew, but no words were exchanged, even as they stood together in the taxi line at Washington National. She got in a cab, looked back, and saw him running after her. She begged the cabbie to stop, but he kept going. In desperation, she scrawled her phone number on a piece of paper and pressed it against the back window. But she knew the man was too far away to read it.

So she went to her meeting. But she couldn't stop thinking about him. So she feigned illness and returned to the airport to wait for him to catch the shuttle back to New York. She waited all day and got on the 9 P.M. flight alone.

In New York, dejected, she stepped into the gate area—and he was there. "What took you so long?" he asked. "I've been waiting all day."

According to Dini Von Mueffling in her book, The 50 Most Romantic Things Ever Done, the couple married and have two children.

The author says she heard the story from a friend of a friend. Whether this is an urban myth or a true story, it pictures something wonderfully true about God. In his great love, God waits for us.