This was my first visit to Hawaii in April of '07. In the background is DiamondHead on the island of Oahu. My husband was a Marine stationed in Oahu in 1970-'72 when the Viet Nam war was in full swing. He always felt a little guilty because he did not actually go to Nam. On the 29th day of leave before being shipped out to Nam an order came to his parents home that changed the course of his life. Instead of Viet Nam, where several of his friends would loose their lives, he was sent to Hawaii to work in legal affairs.
My husband and I have been married 11 years. He is my third husband and I am his fourth wife. Odds definately were against us before we started and it has had it's rough times. Our pattern of divorce is certainly easier it seems at times than the fight to stay together. We both made some decisions to be wiser this time. One of the greatest decisions was to make God, Lord of our lives. That said does not make it easy. Just because we have both come to some major conclusions in terms of knowing there is a God and Jesus is who He says He is and we are committed to discovering what this means for us, does not make marriage an easy venture. Some of the others decisions we have made are to honor our marriage with loyalty to each other and to never talk or use the word divorce. We know this is the last marriage for each of us and we will be together until it is our time to leave this earth.
In the last few years I have been driven with passion to share the understanding of God and marriage with other women who are struggling in their walk with God and marriage. In this blog I will talk about some of these encounters and how they are coming to terms with their lives, their success and failure. I will talk about my own life as it relates.
