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The Destiny of Love After celebrating
their forty-third wedding anniversary, my parents still adore each
other. Love is a beautiful mystery. When you consider all of the things
that must align properly for two people to meet, falling in love is a
remarkable miracle. I have many people in my life who struggle to find that ‘special love.’ They search bars, classrooms, corporate settings, and countless other places only to return solo. Defeat looms heavily on their shoulders as though in some way they think it is their fault that a magical spark didn’t happen between them and one of the millions of other people in the world. Those successful in love will tell you that finding that right person is all about timing. I think about all the great marriages and relationships surrounding me. The one thing they all have in common is that they all bloomed from a single, defining moment in time when the two people had a clear path to each other, despite obstacles that stood in their way. Here’s a clear example: my dad actually met my mom at a dance where he was on a date with her sister! My brother met his bride when on a random military leave for a day in South Carolina. My friend met her husband when she had engine trouble one day and just happened to beg this mechanic, now her husband, for help. I met my husband in a small town in Rhode Island--a town he was just passing through for a short period of time before continuing on his trek back to South America, his homeland. Imagine! As is the case with all of these marriages, our paths crossed at the right moment in time. When it comes to finding love, we never know when, where, or how it will come at us. One day we’re lonely, the next we are floating on the wings of love. To me, finding love is a hopeful pursuit. The waiting brims with hope for a bright future. One never knows when they will walk out of their front door and find that special person. One of my best friends has been a single mother for eleven years and has searched all these years for someone special. Recently, she met ‘the one.’ Unknowingly, for two years, they lived only houses apart from each other. She literally can stand on her front porch and see him standing on his. The serendipitous part of this love story is, she didn’t meet him walking down the street or while gardening in her front yard, as one would suspect. She placed a personal ad online and he responded. They didn’t know each other existed until the ad brought them together. Luck or simply the unraveling of a divine master plan? The hopeless romantic in me believes it takes more than chance for two compatible people to find each other in this great, big world. I’d like to think that it is destiny that brings us together with the ones we love. In the mysterious spirit of the great gift of love, Elizabeth Foster has designed a beautiful project suitably called, “Love.”
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