What Isn't A Perfect Marriage

What Isn't A Perfect Marriage: 

A perfect marriage is most definitely not a union of two perfect people.

A perfect marriage is surely not a life shared where everything comes easy.; all peaches and cream. That there would be an unrealistic fantasy.

Because in a all reality LIFE happens. That means that there will be changing Seasons. Ups, downs, twists and turns. Think about it, how else would the power and divinity of God be more glorified if there was not some event or circumstances in the very lives of married couples to actually LOVE one another through TOGETHER? Love is not just that physical passion shared between spouses. Love in marriage is a deeply shared sanctuary that is built around the union of the marriage. A safe shelter from the storms. A place of acceptance and peace. The kind of peace that is comforting and edifying one another when any number of odds may be stacked against you.

What is a perfect marriage? We can only speak for our own. And we've continued to be inspired by other loving marriages, that a perfect marriage is a union so deeply committed in mind, body, and a prayerful and humble spirit to Go The Distance! "In sickness and in health, for better or worse..."

A perfect marriage to us is that inner certainty that Come what may, WE continue to thrive and endure TOGETHER, with each other, FOR each other, standing on the very foundation of PRAYER. Do we have the perfect marriage? To us we do, and we are not alone in this understanding.

Our marriage is perfectly aligned with God's Purpose for us both together and as the individuals we came into this marriage with in our separate beings. Intimacy, intimacy is continuously developed each and every moment we share as a married couple. It's the grand moments as well as the little moments. It's the laughter and the tears, it's the harmony and then the occasional moments sprinkled in of imbalance all combined.

A perfect marriage for us is an all weather treated union that is unshakable; it's unstoppable. It runs deep with tenderness and love that is well rooted in a faith in God and each other. Our marriage is a daily celebration of Togetherness. We could have everything or nothing in this world but in our marriage we say we have EVERYTHING!

-Mina Leann Sowell *Sowell2Sowell 2015

Curtis, Leann, Trish, Lisa

Oh the priceless meaning and value of friendship!

Friday the 13th was a very important day for us in our journey together. The stress and heaviness of our present situation is sometimes indescribable. These last 10 months have been quite the challenge.

But aside from the burden we are facing, we count ourselves especially blessed with the close and tight-knit circle of our supportive friends.
Friday 13th 2 of my closest friends for nearly 2 decades, drove in to be with us for this day. 

The following quotes truly describe the gift of friendship. Friendship is truly something that you cannot put a price tag on. The bible teaches us in Proverbs 18:24 that there are actually friends who are closer than family. We are blessed to have such friends.

Proverbs 18: 24: NIV * One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
-Walter Winchill

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. -Unknown

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful. -William Arthur Ward

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. -Unknown

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. -Ed Cunningham

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. -George Eliot

 “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”   -Orson F. Whitney

 

The Continuity of Becoming

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.

Mina Leann Sowell 2015