"The Love of My Life!"

“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”

Proverbs 18:22



This coming Monday April 25, 2011 is my 30^th Wedding Anniversary. It seems like just yesterday my wife Deanna and I exchange our wedding vows at my grandmother’s house and yet it seems like eons ago. I can testify to the above scripture that finding my lovely wife was and is good thing. I am a firm believer that Our Heavenly Father has a mate for each one of us and it is up to us to be sensitive to promptings of the Holy Ghost to find our mate. In the next few lines I will share with in how Lord lead me to meet my wife.

Over the years I had gone on several dates and had crushes on some beautiful young ladies, but nothing came out of it. When I was 28 years old, I ran into a two-year dry period and I came up with the notion that I will never find my mate. I resigned to the fact that I would be single for the rest of my life and if it was meant for me to have a wife; I placed that in Our Heavenly Father’s hands’.

In 1979, I moved into my first apartment without having a roommate and I was enjoying my own space and my bachelorship. It was Memorial Day weekend; I was looking out my bedroom window when I saw this attractive lady and her daughter moving boxes out their car. At first sight I was smitten and in my spirit I felt she was the one. Deanna and Michelle were moving in the apartment above me. I went down and I introduced myself and offered my services in helping her to move her boxes. When I looked in Deanna’s eyes. I fell in love with those beautiful blue eyes and I knew she was the one. One could say I melted as I gazed into eyes. After moving her boxes in, I invited her in for a fresh pot of coffee. As we drank our coffee we became instant friends and also with daughter Michelle. I found out later that Dee fell in love with me that same day and she knew I was the one for her. On August 15, 1980, I proposed to Deanna and we became engaged. Being a modern couple of the 80’s, we end living together as a family for short period of time. On our wedding night, I felt the Lord blessed our union and He became part of our marriage. The following web link is a link to our special song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STbB8M2dIlo&feature=related

A couple years after our Wedding Day, on Sweetest Day in October of 1983, I wrote this following poem.

“My Darling Wife”

by C. Stephen Rogers

I sit and ponder my life was before,

And the joy I feel is like a rare wine that is flowing over its’ goblet.

My job is being in love with a beautiful wife,

A wife that has given me life and reason to rejoice.

Before you came into my life, it was a world of darkness,

A world of corruption, anxiety and fear.

But now I have meaning and for being alive.

I was like stagnated water, and through your love, I was purified and refreshen.

 

When I have my arms around you, the feelings are hard to describe.

It is like I have the world wrapped in my arms.

When I look at you, my heart jumps several beats

When my lips are pressed to yours, my darling wife,

The passion I feel are like bombs bursting in mid-air.

Yes, my dear Deanna, I am in love with you.

When I think I have reached the bottom of that well of love

I find it goes deeper and deeper.

The love I feel is complete and ever rejoicing and over flowing.

I love thee dear wife and I have counted the ways.

And the ways spell love for you and only for you.

I can testify that Our Heavenly Father has brought us together and He has blessed our union by giving us four beautiful and fantastic children. And He also blessed us with five beautiful grandchildren. Yes Deanna and I had our problems over the years, but it is those periods one stands firm and put one’s hand to the plow and then you move forward trusting God to work it out for you. As I told Dee over the years she is only one could make me the maddest and same token the happiest. I remember way back, Dee and I were going through a dry period in our marriage and we just kept moving on. Then all suddenly I looked at Dee sleeping on the couch and silently snoring away and that instant I fell in love with her all over again.

I am blessed man to have my beautiful wife standing at my side for past 30 years, and I am looking forward to next 30 years, if God is willing. It also my heart’s desire to take Deanna to Lord’s Temple and being sealed for all time and eternity. Deanna is not only love of my life, but she is my best friend. In conclusion I leave following link to a web page that expresses our love for each other.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NSzwflkF3w&NR=1



The Seed of Faith

“God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith” Romans 12:3b

 “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.’ Matthew 17:20 b

When each of us came into this world, Our Heavenly Father has given us the same measure of faith. It is left up to us to exercise this faith so it can grow to accomplish what set out before us. A good example of faith is that Our Heavenly Father gave us muscles and we need to exercise those muscles, or we become weak and useless and we fail to accomplish our goals. In our daily lives and through out our years we have various seasons of trails to exercise our faith.

As world has seasons, so does our faith. In the spring we plant the seed of faith, we give it much prayer and hope to see it burst forth into life. As we see the seed take root in the solid ground and take hold, so does our faith take hold. We continue to cultivate the ground, giving it the right ingredients and nourishments in order for the seed to spring into life.

With much prayer, the seed grows from a small seedling into a stem that grows into a larger and more stronger plant. As we see the plant grow, so does our faith grow also. It grows to a point that our faith and belief become larger than anything we face. Then we can say to that mountain, “Be gone” and it is gone, for our faith was greater and larger than the mountain. As the mountain is moved so is our faith moved into a stronger, deeper relationship with our Father in Heaven. 

In James 2:26 b says “So faith without works is dead also.” Several years ago, I faced one of the biggest trails in my life. My youngest daughter Megan caught staff infection from the nursery in the hospital. She was a week old and my wife was changing her diaper. As she changed her diaper, Deanna spotted a large blister on private area and it busted and started to bleed. The both of us rushed her the hospital and we found that she contacted a staff infection while she was in the nursery. She was fifth child that came in contact with it. We were told that she would have be placed in isolation and put on strong antibiotics too. We were also told that she would be the isolation for at least couple weeks to a month and if the infection went into her blood system, she would end dying. I can’t begin to describe the feelings my wife and I felt seeing our little girl lay there hopeless with several IV’s coming out of her.

Right away, I went into my prayer closet and I sought God’s face. As I was praying, I felt led to call Elders of our Church so Megan could receive a blessing. The Elders came and they blessed my little girl. Within three days the infection was gone and we were able to take her home. It wasn’t the Elder’s that healed her, because they were vessels that our God used to bring out the miracle. As I am saying this, I am not giving myself credit that took place, but it was my faith in God. I knew without shadow of doubt that nothing is impossible with my God. In times in past He was faithful and I knew that He would be faithful again.

I would like to encourage you to cultivate your faith and believe that nothing is impossible with Our Heavenly Father. As you pray and put your faith in Our Heavenly Father, step aside and believe and mighty hand God move on your behalf. Remember He is no respecter of persons and that He is faithful and awesome God. Also it is our faith that moves Our Heavenly Father.

Click on following link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Y5Me61oKM