Second chances

After everything I have been through in my life, particularly in the past 14 years, I had learned to accept that I would remain a single woman for the rest of my life.  While I am not celebrating the end of my marriage (or the events and  years leading up to it), I can honestly say that I am a happier person after everything.  I will never regret my marriage, for it produced two very special little girls who, I believe, have a purpose on this earth.  This world is a better and brighter place because these two little girls are in it and I know they will only grow into more beautiful, productive and godly women.

For three years after my separation, I learned to accept and love myself.  I have grown into the woman that I always wanted to be.  I am happy and content with who I am, what I have and who I share my life with.  It was with great surprise that I met someone who has made me believe that true love and romance do exist. I was not expecting to meet the love of my life in my 40s, but I did.  He is a wonderful, caring, wickedly funny, intelligent, kind, sweet and loving man.  He believes in God and it was our shared belief that brought us together.

There are days when I sit in awe at how much God has blessed me.  I am engaged in the profession that I set my mind on when I was 9 years old.  I am doing well, learning so much about the law every day, and working with a group of excellent lawyers.  I have friends and family who love me and who have been there for me during my darkest moments.  I have two beautiful, intelligent, sweet and funny little girls. And, now, God has blessed me with a man who not only tells me he loves me every day but who shows it in so many little ways, every single day.

I am so grateful for the second chance at love and, this time around, I can say that there is no doubt in my mind that this man is right for me.  For the first time in my life, I feel truly loved and I love this man, without restrictions.  From the outset, my instincts told me that this was "right" and, every day, I feel my love growing deeper, into depths that I have never known before.

Thank you, God, for you have blessed me with so much love.  I have so much to be grateful for and I will never doubt that God is with me and that He loves me.