Twenty-Five Years Later...

 

Twenty-Five years ago not one person could have ever spoken or convinced me that I would ever know, embrace or celebrate the happiness and joy I am living in my life TODAY. 

Not one person, not one church, no one!

Am I implying that there have not been ANY mistakes,

hardships or mud puddles along the way?   Absolutely NOT!! 

That would be to imply living a life half  full.

What kind of a life is that anyway?  

I have walked, stumbled, fallen, climbed, crawled 

and then ran too-where and when I could to get to

this very point in my life.  And so can you!

I know with an absolute certainty that without having met and developed my personal relationship with something much greater than me and the world around me, a being I personally acknowledge as my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, that I would not have ever arrived here...inside the very moment of my joyful life today!

Today, I am a wife, a writer, a mentor and,  a very proactive advocate in the areas of both Criminal Justice and the well-being and safety of children.  
Every living being on this earth has a divine purpose.

"For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, 

says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and 

not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome."

Jeremiah 29:11

 

 "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, 

and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet 

with a success unexpected in common hours." 

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

There exists a tender intimacy between a man 

and a woman who pray together.

Prayer is a very special and important part of my 

life shared beside my Husband Curt.

I am so very grateful for my life and everyone and 

everything in it! I especially thank GOD 

for blessing me with such a kind, loving, 

and wonderful Husband. I give GOD all the glory!

 

"There is no greater wonder than the way the face and 

character of a woman fit so perfectly in a man's mind, 

and stay there, and he could never tell you why. 

It just seems it was the thing he most wanted." 

-Robert Louis Stevenson

 "In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. 

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." 

-Kahlil Gibran

 The Happiest Day & Moment of my Lifetime-

My Wedding Day-June 25, 2011

The day I married my very best friend in this world!

Genesis 2;18

The LORD God said, 

"It is not good for the man to be alone. 

I will make a helper suitable for him."

 

                                              Proverbs 2: 1-6

                                    ¹ My son, if you accept my words
                                      and store up my commands within you,
                                                ² turning your ear to wisdom
                                      and applying your heart to understanding—
                                                ³ indeed, if you call out for insight
                                      and cry aloud for understanding,
                                                ⁴ and if you look for it as for silver
                                      and search for it as for hidden treasure,
                                                 ⁵ then you will understand the fear of the LORD
                                      and find the knowledge of God.   
                                                 ⁶ For the LORD gives wisdom;
                                       from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. 

Over two decades later...we as individuals 

and as a Christian couple, are still becoming...along life, 

along love and along TIME literally, in every season that we are traveling 

forward together as followers of Christ.

The Continuity of Becoming

By:  Love & Marriage: A Memoir

I am but a timeless traveler along the paths that I have walked. 

An occasional weeping willow in a remote and vast stretch 

of land that had once  been unclaimed. 

I am a dreamer, a pensive weaver of thoughts

and musings that at times appear perplexing.

I am a feeler of the deepest stirrings 

of my own emotional insistence.

I am who I am after all that I have ever been, 

done, felt, or seen.

I am this surviving spirit with patched up wings

Motherless or Fatherless-.

I am the wind through many trees 

and the rain of forgotten storms.

I am who I am on the journey of becoming...

more and sometimes less...

I am 'me".

(c) Mina-Leann Sowell 2011