US Africa's Snow-White - a tale of innocence young love ... and of determnined, jealous evil!
 Excerpts from The ecstasy, dangers, agony and rewards of falling in love with:

  A Contemporary Christian love-story (and a real-life Fairy-tale) 
 

Foreword... In a truly beautiful, blessed land - the land of "Far-Far-Away"; deep within the jungles, surrounded by warm brilliant blue oceans and sandy beaches, in a valley time seems to have purposely overlooked, there is a special place where hummingbirds never leave, flowers always bloom, spring (and it's moderate climate) never dies, bananas, papayas, pineapples and mangos abound, crystal clear fresh waters cascade down awesome mountains over craggy cliffs into turquoise swimming pools surrounded by large warm smooth rocks, their effervescent cascading waters often hiding rocky caves. There, with beautiful multi-colored birds sing sweetly from the surrounding trees and large metallic-blue and other multicolored butterflies flutter all around ... lives the heroine of this fairy-tale, whom we shall call "Africa's Snow-white". Born in Africa in the middle of the last century, with a "Snow-white" complexion, to a mother who seems to have stepped right out of the original fairy-tale, our young Snow-white endured the agony of a mother's vicious attacks and fought valiantly for the right to live and love - many times almost losing on both fronts. She is now well into her 50's, and as you can see, aging gracefully. Now in her land of "Far-Far-Away", with each passing day, comes the realization that she is finally free to enjoy her God-given right to live and to love! 

 
 


 

 
 


 
 

But that's not how this story starts - that's how it ends, for just as in the original fairy-tale this beautiful and welcome happy ending may well not have happened at all if dark malevolent forces had prevailed - as very nearly happens in both stories! Across hemispheres and continents, along with evil's tell-tale signature of gleeful satisfaction at every funeral ... against incredible odds, this love story plays out. For now though, let's journey back to a distant land and time, to the very beginning of this fairy-tale ...

"Once upon a time, in another land far far away, there was a beautiful young woman, the daughter of a company president, who, whilst spending her summer holiday by the sea, met and fell in love with a physician's son. For both it was a case of "Love at first sight" - but they were only 16. Quite naturally (but rather naively) they expected that everyone would be happy for them and would gladly support their genuine love for each other. But sadly they were mistaken, for there were those that did, that were happy for them, and then there were those that were not amused at all, working tirelessly to annihilate young love by imposing their own choices, dreams and ideals, their proud iron willed way ... at any price!"

Well, that's the way this love story really does start. You see, it really did all happen a "long long time ago", and "in a land far far away" - in fact about as far away as you can get from here (or even from most places actually) for our story starts at the southern-most tip of that dark untamed continent - Africa. For now though, while those loving feelings (the most wonderful feelings imaginable) are still warm, and the memories of them have not faded away, this story needs telling, before it is covered by the sands of time. Many couples have been given this special gift, and many others wait to receive this most precious loving gift - the wondrous gift of "True Love", but for some of them, just like happened for Helen and Paris, those that would seek to destroy their love will suddenly appear on the horizon in their arrogant ships, and the two sweethearts will be forced to retreat behind the seemingly safe walls of their own "Troy" - and the relentless siege seeking to destroy love will begin! 

And so too it was for them.

Watch this space ... there is a truly exciting development pending!

Acknowledgement: All of these beautiful works of art were painted by the world-famous painter of women and nature, Jonathon Earl Bowser. See: www.GreatMasterpieces.com