More than seven decades after the end of World War II, one long-separated couple is getting a very happy Valentine’s Day.
A former U.S. paratrooper, Norwood Thomas, then 21, and Londoner Joyce Morris, then 17, met before D-Day in London and started a relationship. After the war ended, they wrote each other letters, but Thomas’s request that Morris should move to the U.S. to marry him was somehow misinterpreted, and Morris stopped writing back.
They married other people, and eventually Thomas was widowed and Morris divorced.
But last year, Morris' son helped her find Thomas on Facebook, and the pair began corresponding again.
Thanks to donations from well-wishers, Thomas, now 93, has been able to fly from Virginia to Australia to reunite with Morris, 88, for a Valentine’s Day visit.
According to Thomas, “This is about the most wonderful thing that could have happened to me,” Thomas said in a broadcast of their meeting.
And, Morris said, “We’re going to have a wonderful fortnight".
NOTE:
Sometimes we abandon our relationships (whether premarital or marital) for another one we thought would be better. But at the long run, we end-up uncomfortable.
Sometimes we leave someone who love us so much; whom we have been with for a long time, for another one who just breezed-in into our lives: thinking that that new person will be better than the other, or, on the guise that you were never meant to be, but later it turns out to be a carnal decision.
Thomas and Morris were in love, but failed to marry because Morris thought she had a better decision.
She misunderstood and rejected Thomas's marriage proposal, and settled for another. However, she divorced subsequently, while Thomas widowed.
In the above true life scenario, you will realize that they reunited after seventy years of separation.
Friends, we must be discerning when making our choices of life partner. We must be sure before we abandon our existing relationships.
There's no unforgivable ill in love-life, unless it was not love from the onset
.
Despite the ills of your partner, you must find one good reason to forgive and forget.
You must remember one good part of the person to come back.
No-one is perfect. Not even you.
Love does not run away, it stays forever.
The questions are:
Have you checked whether your new partner will be better than your Ex?
Are you just leaving with the flimsy excuse that "not all relationship leads to marriage"?
Have you just left because you think that all that glitters is gold?
Or, did you just leave because your level has changed, and you think the person is no longer your type?
You must be very sure before you shut that door.
By Charles C. Dennis
A former U.S. paratrooper, Norwood Thomas, then 21, and Londoner Joyce Morris, then 17, met before D-Day in London and started a relationship. After the war ended, they wrote each other letters, but Thomas’s request that Morris should move to the U.S. to marry him was somehow misinterpreted, and Morris stopped writing back.
They married other people, and eventually Thomas was widowed and Morris divorced.
But last year, Morris' son helped her find Thomas on Facebook, and the pair began corresponding again.
Thanks to donations from well-wishers, Thomas, now 93, has been able to fly from Virginia to Australia to reunite with Morris, 88, for a Valentine’s Day visit.
According to Thomas, “This is about the most wonderful thing that could have happened to me,” Thomas said in a broadcast of their meeting.
And, Morris said, “We’re going to have a wonderful fortnight".
NOTE:
Sometimes we abandon our relationships (whether premarital or marital) for another one we thought would be better. But at the long run, we end-up uncomfortable.
Sometimes we leave someone who love us so much; whom we have been with for a long time, for another one who just breezed-in into our lives: thinking that that new person will be better than the other, or, on the guise that you were never meant to be, but later it turns out to be a carnal decision.
Thomas and Morris were in love, but failed to marry because Morris thought she had a better decision.
She misunderstood and rejected Thomas's marriage proposal, and settled for another. However, she divorced subsequently, while Thomas widowed.
In the above true life scenario, you will realize that they reunited after seventy years of separation.
Friends, we must be discerning when making our choices of life partner. We must be sure before we abandon our existing relationships.
There's no unforgivable ill in love-life, unless it was not love from the onset
.
Despite the ills of your partner, you must find one good reason to forgive and forget.
You must remember one good part of the person to come back.
No-one is perfect. Not even you.
Love does not run away, it stays forever.
The questions are:
Have you checked whether your new partner will be better than your Ex?
Are you just leaving with the flimsy excuse that "not all relationship leads to marriage"?
Have you just left because you think that all that glitters is gold?
Or, did you just leave because your level has changed, and you think the person is no longer your type?
You must be very sure before you shut that door.
By Charles C. Dennis
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