My Walk Down The Aisle

--> My answer finally came when I got on my knees and prayed, I remember pouring out my heart to God on how confused I was and if I was making the right decision. Of course I had prayed even before I said YES to my husband and I had peace then, but at this point I had looked at everything and marriages around me and I was not sure anymore. My answer is what I would love to share to encourage both my single and married friends, male and female alike. God took me to the book of Deuteronomy 1 where the spies were sent out to spy on the promised land and I learnt the following lessons: Marriage is a step of faith : God had already told the Israelites this is your promised land, go up and take possession of it, but the Israelites were able to convince Moses that they should send out men to spy out the land and bring back report. The truth is if God has told you this is your promised land, why don’t you step out in faith instead of seeking answers and trying to spy o...

--> I remember like it was yesterday, some few weeks to my wedding day, i was worried about if I was making the right decision or not. Why few weeks to the D-day?, you would ask, but it happens, should I say I was getting cold feet because of things I saw around me? Well I remember examining other marriages and there were only few, I mean few that I liked, of which I was only judging from what I saw, so I started asking questions! Don’t get me wrong, I had been in a relationship with my husband for five good years and I love him to pieces :) .  But I figured out that spouses must have loved each other so much at a point to even consider getting married in the first instance, so what happened? So I embarked on what I would call “key informant interview” . I went to my older friends and women that were married and started asking questions, about marriage. Was that a mistake? Not exactly, I got the information I was looking for, "that there were various issues in ma...