Welcome back to #hiveghana weekly activity for week 111. Is been a very long and exciting week for me and I want thank God for everything. All glory to his name.
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I will love to go with the topic that says Love vs Family. When I went through all the topics I decided to go with this particular one become it is exactly what I have experienced when I was younger and today I can use my own experience to teach others to do better when making a choice.
The first thing that came to my heart is - What is Life without Love? It just came up immediately I saw this topic and I also want to use it as my title because is the summary of my message today. I was there before and God helped me to scale through.
When my husband came to me and said he wants to marry me I knew that I was in for a battle that I don't know how it will end. We have been friends with him and even before he came to me to tell me his intentions, I already fail for me. I knew that someday he will come up with that. But the problem is that my people don't allow their ladies to go that far to get married. They prepare us to get married closer to our own community so that when there is any trouble tomorrow my people can come and fight for me. This was exactly what my mother told me. Hmmm! I taught it was a joke. When he took me to go and see his people we also faced the same problem. His family said no to the relationship because according to them, women who don't know their culture will always come and spoil things for them at the end. Maybe doing something that is against the law and becoming a victim by receiving the consequences of her actions. Even when we tried to explain to them that we love ourselves, they all paid no attention to what we were saying.
WHAT DID WE DO?
I know that love is a good thing, but I can't advice anyone to go against his or her parents because of love. We had to give them time to see reasons with us and allow us. We started praying also and God answered our prayers by touching their hearts. When we were asked to go ahead with the marriage plans, it wasn't everyone that accepted us, but we made sure that both fathers and mothers gave their blessings and that was all that we ever needed.
THE NEED TO WAIT FOR THEIR APPROVAL.
Our parents play a significant role in blessing our marriage and we can't over look that. When you run away and don't want anything to do with your parents because they said no to your love. A time will come when you can't come back to them because you ran away from them when you are supposed to wait and receive their blessings.
I believe that we should give our parents a little time to understand with us and give us their blessings.
