Jewells of Thought

The word powerful fits how this story enfolds through at least 4 different stories of love. There is something about the ideas behind marriages of convenience. In American History, this idea had never been used quite so much as in the growing outward of the original Colonies toward the west coast. The trek of the pioneer experience and the wagon trains was difficult and downright intolerable. The routes our ancestors took to find their dreams going west ended up with losing their other halves due to sickness or injury.

Marriage should never be a convenience as opposed to being in love and committed to each other. Yet some people have had to search their souls for their children or the good of the situation. How do you make such decisions? Did God nudge you in the right direction or do you even ask His for His guidance?

Still I am intrigued at how God can work in such a marriage and perhaps even make a stronger one because of the adversity from the other two marriages. I also think of Bathsheba believing she was possibly barren as the wife of Uriah the Hittite. Only to find out very quickly by being ravaged by the King that she could in fact have a baby, but with the wrong man. Of course this is conjecture, but she was married and there is no record of a birth before he went back to the Army. That would raise alarm bells to any woman. Yet King David and Bathsheba made their marriage work and their oldest child is literally a legend for many reasons.

Each love story is unique to the couple. I am still baffled that I am even in a relationship. Yet I find our unique qualities quite intriguing to the couple we make. The American Revolution was my favorite time to read about when I began my journey to become the nerd I am. Boston being his home threw me off kilter when we first disclosed where we lived. The historian in me immediately went to the Kennedy’s, then our Revolution and even the movie Donovan’s Reef. This conversation was day 4, for us and it seemed to good to be true.

This was so early in our story I could never have believed we would make it to 2 years plus. Sometimes I feel like he can read my mind and vice versa. We have caught each other knowing the other so well and better than I ever thought we could in such a short time with a distance issue. The idea that God so thoughtfully placed us in a platform together to meet when we never would have any other way is overwhelming.

As the country girl who never traveled farther west than Missouri or north of Washington D.C. and him literally a world traveler; we were in different worlds. I guess our attraction can be as simple as a country girl falling for the laid back city slicker who enjoys watching her music videos she makes for him as she laughs at his long line of emojis he sends back. We have a groove all our own with stimulating ideas and banter being exchanged into the morning hours if possible.

There is a piece of each book where their two different worlds collide. It accentuates their weaknesses and strengths to work together to make a couple that normally would seem out of this world. Yet they complement each other even as David and Bathsheba did eventually.

Isn’t it rather exciting to see who God has given you to love? The whole idea may take time to get used to, but when you think about getting to a spot in life just to marvel at what has happened to you and who has made you life better for being in your life how incredible is that? The person you would never have given a chance for, for specific reasons, ending up making you a better person for yourself and together as a couple!