Divine Intervention

I’m participating in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge. Today’s letter is D.

Some people believe in luck. Others believe in mere circumstance. And yet others, as I do, believe that there is a Higher Being helping to put things in place with a larger plan than what we could ever imagine.

Not too many years ago — but enough that it does feel like a sad, distant memory — I was in another marriage to a person who had been my best friend for a long time. It fizzled. No wait — it crashed and burned. There were burns, and there were tears. To this day, a few scars still show up from time to time. I tried so hard to mend the broken pieces. My attempts didn’t work.

Finally, I let go. And when I did, other awesome things began to happen. I found myself again. I learned to be alone. And then I met Aaron.

A little less than a year after meeting him, we were married. Two years later, our first son. Two years after that, our second son. Today, our fifth anniversary.

Was it luck that I met Aaron? I say with much determination: NO.

While the pain of that first marriage’s end seemed unbearable at the time, I’m so glad that I fought through. I learned so much about what it means to give and take. I learned more than I ever thought I needed to know about how to treat a spouse while taking care of myself.

I’m determined that it was actually Divine Intervention that brought Aaron to me.

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