Guided By His Love

Living the perfect Love Life. Rather you are a female, or male we are all looking for the special person, Mr. or Mrs. Right. Now for myself, I have found the right person in life. I found a man who I knew of since I was the age of ten years old. Does opposite attracts? Well, fact being only ten years old, he was only twelve years old at the prior time we became neighbors at the start he had no interest in girls, I had no interest in boys. We both had our own group of friends.

On a warm summer day, him and his parents moved out of the area so we lost contact with each other. It was until a years that we happen to bumped into each other. My sister have asked me to walk along with her down town in the area we lived in to go baby shopping, so I volunteer to walk along with her. Just as we were about to walk across the bridge that people called it the Mulberry Street bridge, a friend of my sister’s who she knew for quite some years has a friend with him. I did not take notice who he was at first. He was dressed in an army uniform. Very handsome I have to admit. I was only fifteen years of age, he happen to be eighteen. Now I was well aware that there was no way my poppa would allow me to date of the age I was.

My sister Lee and her friend got into a conversation and as they were both standing there chatting away, I walked over to the steps of the laundromat and sit on the steps to wait until my sister Lee was done chatting with her male friend. But at the corner of my eye, I have notice her friend, friend, was staring out me up and down. I had my hair down because I just washed it. My hair was very long, it fell down pass my knees. What his friend was not aware of I was a Mennonite girl. As my sister Lee continued in her conversation, her friend yelled over and asked me if I remember Pike. His face looked familiar I replied. I could not place him of knowing him personally.

Ray, sister’s friend said something that helped me recall who his friend Pike was. Okay, now I remember, I said. His parents lived in our block a few years ago. Fact, I was in the Mennonite faith we were forbid to date outside of our own faith. I knew my father would not hear of it let alone I was in my early teens and just to young to date and still being in school I had no interest to day either. My plans were to graduate first. It did not work as I planned.

Apparently without my knowledge my sister Lee have given Pike our home phone number and also our address which to add, we were still living at the same homestead when his parents have moved out of the area. My father gave some lead way, broke down and left me date and allow Pike court-shipped me as long as we were not alone. He agree that Pike could courtship me if we had supervision and were with a group of others which happen to be older than the two of us. So we courtship one another and a year later we were married. Long story.

I made commitment at the age of thirteen years old to God, “True Love Waits”. True Waits is a program for youths from our church for youths to volunteer their own free will to not to have sex before marriage. Remain a virgin so when Pike asked me to marry him, I did not at first give him an answer. I was young and had dreams, wanted to fulfill my life tasks. To be a missionary but again, it did not work out as I planned. I fell in love with Pike and he fell in love with me. Now that was forty two years ago, how long we be married.

Living the Love life is not just who your partner is, or how rich you become. For me, Living the Love life as I define it would be committing myself back then and still today to lay down my own life serving God. When I chosen to lay down my life to please God instead of myself and to do God’s Will and not my own selfish will or selfishness, I left God guide me by His Love. For me to lay down my life for God it meant for me to be spending time in prayer for someone, laying down my own selfish desires in order to meet the needs of another. It meant to me that I need to be giving of myself with love and understanding. Telling the Lord that I am willing to make up the love life today as an Adult by laying down my own life.

Accept His calling to give of myself. Count it a privilege to share the Love of Jesus and Jesus Love with others. Growing up my life was not all peaches and cream. I have always felt that their were pieces of the puzzles in my life missing. When God found me it was then I had some understanding of the pain, sorrow, life hardships of learning life lessons on my own the hard way. Now that is Living the Love Life. Now only have I found the love of my life but I also am saved by Grace and His mercy and very grateful that God fell me when I was on my knees and lost hope. He taken me out of the darkness and guided me to the light so I be able today to see the truth.

I married a man who I knew of and knew his parents at a very young age. How God brought us together years later, He chosen me to be his wife, today he is the love of my life. Best love of my life who will always come first will forever be God. I am so blessed that my husband and I serve the same God together so God is his as well the love of his life. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder. (KJV)