Standing the test of time: love stories of african american elders
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For African Americans, our history has borne witness to our willingness to love at all costs. We have jumped the broom to love that has reached the stars and returned to earth, a place that can become heaven when we love with all our hearts. Stories like those told in the collection, Standing the Test of Time: Love Stories of African American Elders, by Julie Rainbow remind us that we are worthy of the rich and long-lasting love we seek if we are willing to engage ourselves fully in the process with God, our families and our communities by our side.
Each of us, no matter the gender or ethnicity, seeks a love supreme, we merely need blueprints of how to construct its foundation.
In Standing the Test of Time, we see twenty African American couples (married thirty years or more) who have embraced the obligation to make themselves whole seeking, peace and truth as they reveal the parallels that have become their shared history. Philadelphia couple Irene and Joseph Yarbrough, married forty-eight years provide advice for couples, “In any marriage there are going to be valleys and things will turn out okay….There’s no perfect mate and if you’re looking for a perfect mate you’re going to have trouble. Decide what values you can live with and those you can’t and if you can’t live with the other person’s values, don’t marry.” Elder couples like Auretha and Jethro English, who after sixty-seven years of marital bliss concede that “you don’t fall out of love, you build it - it’s a road that is hard to travel if you don’t have God with you.” Honoring the sunshine and the shadows has been the love song of E. Vivian and Louis Williams, Atlanta residents who have been married 60 years. “I consider her a blessing, I really do. I feel very comfortable knowing that she is here for me. I feel good that I have had a life with her.”
The gracious, powerful stories in this book remind us - in the words of Margaret Walker that, “love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.’ And it is through this love that we become our authentic selves - free, powerful and ready to affect positive change in our world
Each of us, no matter the gender or ethnicity, seeks a love supreme, we merely need blueprints of how to construct its foundation.
In Standing the Test of Time, we see twenty African American couples (married thirty years or more) who have embraced the obligation to make themselves whole seeking, peace and truth as they reveal the parallels that have become their shared history. Philadelphia couple Irene and Joseph Yarbrough, married forty-eight years provide advice for couples, “In any marriage there are going to be valleys and things will turn out okay….There’s no perfect mate and if you’re looking for a perfect mate you’re going to have trouble. Decide what values you can live with and those you can’t and if you can’t live with the other person’s values, don’t marry.” Elder couples like Auretha and Jethro English, who after sixty-seven years of marital bliss concede that “you don’t fall out of love, you build it - it’s a road that is hard to travel if you don’t have God with you.” Honoring the sunshine and the shadows has been the love song of E. Vivian and Louis Williams, Atlanta residents who have been married 60 years. “I consider her a blessing, I really do. I feel very comfortable knowing that she is here for me. I feel good that I have had a life with her.”
The gracious, powerful stories in this book remind us - in the words of Margaret Walker that, “love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.’ And it is through this love that we become our authentic selves - free, powerful and ready to affect positive change in our world