A tesitmony of love of all kinds

Not a day goes by that I don't think about it.
What it means to love and be happy. I see it all around me.
Men and women basking in happiness to be with one another.
On occasion, I see that love can survive in all possible situations
and combinations. It just makes me marvel at the beauty and
power of love.

Chipo and Dave are a couple whose love for each other I admire.
Their love story unravelled right in front of my eyes and it fascinates
me to see them still strong together many years later.
 Chipo was the girl next door to Dave and they were friends since the 
first grade and through high school. They went to the same University.
Chipo was a beautiful girl and dated some man she met at Uni and Dave 
dated some nurse. But the one he wanted was the one he could not have,
Chipo. He was always there for her and she was there for him. Best friends.
But they were never more than that.....until the day Dave had an accident
and almost died. That's when in a delirious state he confessed his true
feelings to Chipo. Chipo was shocked. She had always loved Dave but would
not show it because she thought he didn't love her the same. She was surprised
to find out that he actually loved her all along. In the hospital, Chipo had
told him her plans of getting engaged to her current boyfriend. He was hurt but
wanted her to be happy because she was his friend and a good person. Her
happiness mattered to him a whole lot. Dave recovered from his injuries and
went home. He was thankful to be alive. Imagine his surprise when he came home
to find Chipo there waiting for him with a surprise engagement proposal. Dave 
looked at the woman she had called her friend for two decades and wept with joy as
he accepted the proposal. While Dave was in hospital Chipo had spent a lot of time
thinking and realized that the man she wanted, the one she sought to embrace for the rest of her life had been right under her nose all along. That night, Dave and
Chipo shared their love, and more, much more, they began to share the rest of their lives. A month later they were married and their love for each other is given as an example of how beautiful marriage can be by the marriage counselors at their Church.

I also have a friend, Clemencia who is very intelligent but very quiet. Clemencia has
always been the nerd type, forever studying whatever subject under the sun. As she grew up she had no time for anything else besides her books to the point of being anti-social and dressing shabbily, she just didn't care about anything except her books. Was always top of her class from first grade up to her last year at University and during all those years she never dated anyone and only made friends with one person, Seby, who accepted her as she was. After graduating with a distinction she got a good well paying job and then started attending an MBA programme during weekends where she met her match, Tendai, an anti-social nerd who is obssessed with books, just like herself. He was a gentle, shy person. They became very close friends. After two months of friendship, he saw her in a different light.
She did have all the qualities he wanted in a significant other and they started dating. Clemencia the nerd became a changed person when she fell in love with Tendai, she began to take great care of her looks and would actually make time to be with other girls and participate in the girl talks something she never used to be interested in. After a year of dating, Clemencia and Tendai got married and their love for each other can be seen by anyone who knows them, two decades down the line.
Their love for each other knows no bounds.

The there is my friend Agnes. Agnes is a pretty girl. All men and boys can't sit or stand still when she is around and she loves the attention she gets from men but never lets them get near her. After divorcing with her irresponsible first husband
she began to believe that all men were only interested in her outer beauty and not with her inner beauty. As beautiful as she is, she never dated anyone after her divorce, didnt trust men. But the man that she eventually married for the second time had no time for dating, it was love at first sight. He gazed at her in awe from across a crowded room at a business luncheon and the next day and for the next two months after that a fresh single red rose with a note written, "Love you Agnes|" and signed TG would be delivered to her desk by a florist every morning. She didn't know any TG and this TG was not coming forward to introduce himself to her so for two months she lived in suspense and anticipation to meet this TG. When he eventually appeared into her life and proposed Agnes had already fallen in love with him during the build up of the anticipation to meet the romantic TG so she accepted his proposal. A month later they were married and they are still married
and strongly in love to this date.

These are the testimonies of love and I have seen these love tales unfolding as I watched from a distance. Whenever I am alone, and that is fairly often, these tales give me hope. Hope that someday I am going to be writing my own "and they lived happily ever after" love story with Dumi as my co-star on this blog. Will also write Babra's love story in future when she eventually meets her soulmate.

To all those people out there who are in love like I am, what I want to say to you is that it takes courage to love and relationships of any kind take work but if your love is true it can overcome any obstacles in its path and become stronger with each obstacle it manages to surmount.
THANK YOU LORD FOR THE GIFT OF LOVE.