A compilation of Love letters, journal and diary entries, as well as present day comments that combine to tell a Love Story and provide insight into character development, compromise and commitment in forming two people into one as God designed.
Origin.
About author(s): Charlene Eagles Richmond , as her friends know, is no stranger to writing for amusement and inspiration.
Quotes are referenced.
Diary entries are not often corrected for sentence structure in order to maintain authenticity.
These have not been reworked for improved style.
There is moving poetry from both pens.
He was and is a Story teller and there are amusing fanciful stories in some letters.
This makes for intense character study.
Both he and she were deeply religious people and felt free to express their honest opinions on many matters to each other.
Those narratives are used by the author to emphasize life lessons the couple have learned through the tragedies and joys of their life experiences and are intended to be used as tools for other couples struggling with marriage issue.
The narrations are not shy about pointing out difficulties that arose throughout the 44 years since those letters were written.
We can learn from it.
Because this couple lived in two different countries and did most of their dating through letters, we can now look back and watch that blending.
Early personalities are revealed...good and disappointing and the ensuing struggles to blend two people into one are revealed in a way that is not usually seem.
Some letters contain imaginative stories, some poetry.
Diary entries round out the events happening in their lives and to a small degree in the world.
For easy reference, these topics are included under table of contents according to chapter placement.
Several topics are discussed through the narratives including money issues, mutual respect, communication, unrealistic expectations, sex before marriage and many others.
It became clear to me during the writing of the narrative, that others might benefit from some insight we have gained in making a marriage work through the difficulties of life.
I, the author, originally intended this compilation as a gift of legacy to my offspring.
Care has been taken to keep the sentence structure, and the meaning of their written words intact at the risk of revealing writing flaws and immature thinking for both of them.
This book is an authentic picture of these two people. she also, sometimes even sarcastically compares their dreams and intentions to what actually transpired throughout their 44 years together.
Through commentary that the author provides throughout the book, these beliefs are explained and commented on to compare their early belief system then, with that which they hold today...44 years later.
One of the main themes of the book is their deep religious faith and their beliefs based on the legalistic church they both belonged to.
This is a recurring theme in the book due to the intensity of their emotions on the few occasions they were able to be in person during these seven months of their Love story.
The author has summarized her thoughts on the marriage night...without details, but with a desire to promote her convictions that sex is something to save for marriage.
The letters also show the birth and the growth of their Love up until their wedding.
The book entertains through the letters which include descriptions of life on their dairy farms in Canada and Upstate New York.
Their courtship, engagement and wedding plans ...the time which was mostly lived apart in two different countries covered only seven months but is rich with entertainment, wisdom encouragement ...tears and laughter.
We are able to glean info about their thoughts of marriage, partner choice, life goals, faith and many faucets of their personalities because of the extensive writing that they both engaged in.
We are introduced to this couple when they were single and not really on each others radar.
The letters written 44 years ago when they were in their early twenties.
The couple is the author and her husband.
A compilation of Love letters, journal and diary entries, as well as present day comments that combine to tell a Love Story and provide insight into character development, compromise and commitment in forming two people into one as God designed
