David Adewumi

You are not special because you are talented. You are not loved because you are beautiful. You are not captivating because you are smart.

You are special, loved, and captivating because HE has made you that way. The apple of his eye, there is a huge hole in the heart of God that only ONE can fill. Out of a world with more than six billion HE is dying for an intimate relationship with you, and desires to grow closer and closer to you everyday. In the same way that we feel that desire to be longed, HE also desires for you to long him with all your heart.

Your virtue, innocence, and pride has taken a chink in the armor by many with good or bad intentions. But HE is a restorer of all things and will not stop until you are restored to perfection, better than you have ever lived or been. The crown of creation, in your heart you feel the remant of a time long gone, where you would live as a Princess, or Maiden, longing to be rescued by a handsome Knight or Prince, but also mature, and with a commanding presence, sure of the fact that you are heir to a throne.

The sole fact that there exist thorns and bristles along the way, that take the shape in men and women,and bruises and scrapes, does NOT mean that the fairy tale is not still true. In fact, it REINFORCES it’s Veracity. The Fairy Tale always has a happy beginning and a happy ending, but in between there is always a firce battle, a War of the Worlds, raged to enslave the Rescuing Knight or confuse the Awaiting Maiden. The confusion sometimes leads the Maiden to harden her heart, losing hope in the seemingly Tall Tale. But alas, hardness is not maturity, nor will it protect her from more pain and hurt. For the same bars and walls that the Princess would put around her heart to protect more invaders from stealing her life’s wellspring, are truly keeping her captive in a web of a larger Enemy’s design.

For in the Gentleman’s quest, and the Lady’s awakening, the traps for them are to believe they are not complete without the other. On the happiest day of all, the two truly shall unite in one accord, and become one flesh, but the trick is that they are not two halves becoming whole, but two wholes becoming ONE. HE desires to complete us, with a passion so strong, the world can never quite understand its fury. Two souls who feel incomplete, united togther, will always turn from an infinite boundless love, to a selfish grasping ugly beast, for to be without one’s half, is to be incomplete, and we as human beings LONG to be completed. Thus HE must complete us, that we be made whole and renewed, that we may offer ourselves, our TRUE selves to HIM, our Beloved, and to our World. Prince Charming offers more than charm, but his strength of a Lion, and also his caring and gentless of a Dove, and the Princess with heart as fair as an unblemished snowfall begins to reveal her mysteries, and lets herself be romanced, enchanted, and KNOWN.

Your heart has chosen a Prince, and your Prince has chosen you. But before the Happy Ending can be gauranteed, the Knight must slay his Dragon, and the Maiden must conquer her deepest fears…

and the echo that is not an echo will redeem our hearts and guide us to the Secret Garden…