The Journey to Forever After

This fictional book is based on true events during a sixteen-year span in the life of a young couple in the mid-twentieth century.

The story unfolds when a thirteen-year-old girl visits the church of a fifteen-year-old boy. As they navigate their teenage years, their connection deepens-filled with unspoken emotions and the lingering uncertainty of never truly knowing what the other feels. As the boy, now a young man, enters the Air Force, they seem destined for a life together. Then the young man's seemingly minor lapse in faith-something that might have gone unnoticed by others or not even considered a misstep by most-turned out to be pivotal for this couple and altered the course of both their lives. Over the next ten years, their journey is filled with obstacles, wrong turns, and heartaches, testing their faith and resilience. In the end, their story came full circle in a way neither expected.

If there's a lesson in this story, it's this: No matter where you are in the world or what your faith is, when you feel the Lord is cautioning you against something, listen carefully. It's not worth the risk, and it might even change the course of your life.

The couple whose life inspired this story are now in their nineties and have been married for sixty-four years.