Love for life ... // personal story

She is a 16-year-old girl, a 19-year-old student of the last year of high school, with plans to pursue both university studies; she wishing to receive someday as an attorney and he as an engineer in systems. This is how my parents' love story began on July 2, 1988, about to end the school year, after having spent so many months studying together at last their eyes crossed and in the midst of a timely silence they decided to take a short Kiss, to start the great romance.

After a few months, her studies change, she decides to start working, due to the economic situation of my grandparents and he decides to study at a Technological Institute located in another state of the country. That is how this relationship takes place, which my mother remembers with a smile and with her eyes full of brightness, in the middle of the distance, but fed with much love by means of letters, telegrams and telephone calls (every 8 days), since in the town where my father was studying, there was only one public telephone and most of his companions also needed to communicate with their families.

My mom, a wise young woman, knew how to be patient and understand that if they loved each other, they could endure being away from each other (which was a test), because true love can do everything, that is how she manifested it. Each school break, were days of happiness, expectation and nerves; since when the day of the arrival of my father approached the city, his heart did not stop "jumping" with joy and falling in love with that young man who was already his owner.

So two years went by, until my dad started doing internships to receive his title of TSU in Farm Management, practices he has the opportunity to do in his hometown, this being the occasion to recover those days of distance and manifestation of the love they had. Such a demonstration, which resulted in the advancement of his wedding by the civil (before the law of man) and the arrival of his firstborn (ie me) being this step the beginning of our family.

They have overcome strong stages in their marriage, problems like all couples can have; So much so that at one point I thought that they could divorce. However, when everything seemed to be lost, that flaming flame of the Holy Spirit came and ignited the love in my father, resulting in that after 20 years of marriage I asked him to marry now under the law of God.

In this year my parents will celebrate 30 years of boyfriends, 28 years of civil marriage and 8 years of ecclesiastical marriage; Every day that passes I can see that it is one more day of teaching how to respect and love a person who is your ideal help.

Every second that I enjoy with them, I can realize that my dad is a man who deeply loves my mom and that she is a woman who still feels her heart "jump" in love for him.

18 Let your spring be blessed,

And rejoice with the wife of your youth,
19 Like a beloved doe and a graceful gazelle.
Your caresses satisfy you at all times,
And in his love amuse yourself.
Proverbs 5: 18-19.source

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