Kelly and Andrea’s luv story began 18 years ago in an elevator
on the campus of NC State University.
What initially began as a casual friendship
blossomed into an 18-year romantic journey.
Our initial attraction to one another was our strong friendship.
For Kelly,
he feels that Andrea’s selflessness and willingness to
always do anything for him
is what initially attracted him to her.
For Andrea,
she feels that Kelly has always been a man of his word
and he has always aimed to please her and meet her needs,
so that is what initially attracted her to him.
We always enjoyed each other’s company and developed our friendship
by chatting on AOL instant messenger, hanging out at parties,
going to games, and meeting for breakfast weekly.
The glue that has always made our relationship stick is
that we have a strong foundation since we started out as friends.
We both share a lot of common interests such as our family values
and financial goals in addition to travelling and trying new things.
Since we are both adventurous,
we decided to embark on a new journey and move to Las Vegas
during year 9 of our relationship.
Despite facing some of our most challenging years while living in Las Vegas,
the hard times brought us closer together and made us stronger.
We mainly struggled with trust and communication issues
that caused us to take some breaks from one another.
The time apart helped us appreciate each other
and the absence between us helped make our hearts grow fonder.
The space helped Kelly realize that Andrea was the one for him,
but the communication and trust issues still existed,
which ultimately led us to seek counseling.
After repairing years of damage from trust issues through therapy,
we were able to find our way back to the friendship that initially brought us together.
Our relationship is now stronger than ever,
so
we felt that the timing is right for us to officially commit to one another.
We both have a deep love for the beach,
so after moving back to North Carolina last year,
Kelly surprised Andrea with a proposal on the beach!
Andrea said yes of course
and since we got engaged on the beach,
we thought it was fitting to commit our love to one another on the beach.
Therefore,
We both felt that Maui would be the perfect place!
We are ready to begin this new chapter of our lives on our 18th anniversary
with our family and close friends as our witnesses.
We are blessed to still be in a committed union after all of these years
and we look forward to having a happy life together
alongside our fur baby, Bella.
One of our main goals as a couple includes travelling more.
We are interested in going to different countries that we have not been to
since we both love to travel.
We also plan to purchase a beach property so that we can continue to
enjoy our love of the beach more often.
Personally,
we both want to continue to be happy with one another,
spend time with our families and prosper financially.
Professionally,
we both want to continue to enjoy our jobs and earn good incomes
that will allow us to achieve our goals as a couple.
We also want to ensure that we have a good work life balance
so that we can continue to spend valuable time with each other.
No matter what we have been through over the years,
the one thing that has always been consistent is
our love for one another.
We are faithful that our love can help us overcome
any future challenges that we may face.
Our relationship can best be described in
the New Testament of the Bible in 1 Corinthians 13:13:
“And now these three remain:
faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.â€
———————————————————————–
A Luv Story Blessing – Born in an Elevator
Like the Aerosmith song ‘Love in an Elevator’…
You must have felt like life was looking up when you first met…
When your Hearts ‘lived it up in the elevator.’
Life is like an elevator, with all its ups & downs…
With Divine Grace, life, like an elevator….
Takes us where we need to go.
If life was perfect, we’d have wings and halos…
Besides, if there were no ups & downs,
those on the ‘elevator of life’ would go nowhere.
No Transcendence…
Las Vegas… wow…
Well, that’s a big adventurous challenge right there.
Just the ‘off the chart energy dynamics’ that radiate from the masses of humanity
are enough to make it hard to hear one’s Inner Silence and True Nature…
Much less communicate from a mindful perspective.
‘Trust’…
Well again, if life was perfect, we’d have wings and halos…
‘Trust’ sounds simple, but it’s just about ineffable
in the complex nature of how to put it into words.
‘Trust’ is, in a big part,
related to ‘expectations’.
If we didn’t hold onto the attachment of a desired outcome…
We wouldn’t need to worry about maintaining all the aspects required
to manage the preconceptions of ‘Trust’.
Perhaps Enlightened Saints have this Saintly perspective that allows them to
maintain Bliss regardless of materialistic distractions.
Without this ‘Saintly’ quality fully manifested so far on our path…
Only the philosophical psychologies of a trained councilor could help to
shine some insights into the ‘expectations’ that create our projection of
‘Trust’.
We are here to learn, and ‘the school of hard knocks’
is always ready to throw a new subject or challenge our way.
These ‘lessons’ come in the form of a ‘bump in the road of life’…
They are never pleasant when they rear their nasty heads…
But these experiences build our Wisdoms…
And our Wisdoms are the baby steps towards…
‘Saintliness’
Or at least
Eternal Maui Marital Bliss
😉
Transcended challenges become the Ground of a mature love.
This mature Love renders the projected aspects of ‘Trust’…
To be of no concern in the formula of Marital Bliss… for
Trust, Compassion and Unconditional Love is preeminent.
There are many Sacred places in the far east, far west and at special Temples…
However,
the universal experience everyone feels in an oasis of nature,
when the toes are in the sand
and our eyes are free to gaze over the endless inspiring offshore horizons…
‘The beach’
Where Dreams are created, and reality is appreciated.
Where the hearts of True Love first planted the seeds that became
‘The Tree of Us’
From 1st Corinthians:
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.â€
Realize that
‘hope’
is the antidote for ‘fear’
Might as well Transcend both ‘hope’ and ‘fear’.
‘Faith’
is nice, but …
‘knowing’ makes ‘faith’ … unnecessary…
Which is why “the greatest of these is love.â€
This Love alone, will guide your lives to
Fuller Strengths, Wider Wisdoms, Deeper Insights
and Greater Freedoms to fulfill your adventurous ambitions
to travel beyond endless horizons and put your toes in the sand
😉
from The Beatles –
“Love is all ya needâ€
