Marriage is a process, one that takes courage, selflessness, failure, success, loss, victory, ups, downs, good times, bad times and many other life experiences before a couple is truly united as one in marriage.
Your love, which can only be explained through faith, and the awesome power of God inspires me to be who God made me to be. You helped me understand this, as it says in 1 Corinthians 13, “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.”
I have to admit that there have been times I was a little nervous when you were in the kitchen making grits. J But faith, hope and a lot of prayer got me through, as well as my occasional and sudden needs to leave the house until I was certain the grits had substantially cooled. But I digress!
Thank you so much for being my much better half, and answering God’s call to be my wife, and Jelani, Jalil and Jonas’s Mom! Happy birthday, Carlita Ebony Kilpatrick. Celebrate, and enjoy being forty and fine!
about the author
KWAME KILPATRICK, former Mayor of the City of Detroit, started his political career at the age of twenty-five after teaching in the Detroit Public School system for nearly four years.
He was the youngest and first African-American to be elected Leader to the Michigan House of Representatives. At thirty-one years old he was elected as the mayor of Detroit and served in that office for nearly seven years. Kwame Kilpatrick graduated from Florida A&M University earning a B.S. in Political Science. He also earned his Juris Doctor (law degree) from Michigan State University College of Law. Today, Kilpatrick is an author, educator and public speaker. He resides in Dallas, Texas with his wife of sixteen years, Carlita Kilpatrick, and their three sons, Jelani, Jalil and Jonas. He enjoys reading, writing, golfing and spending time with family.
July of 2011 and the release of SURRENDERED marks the beginning of a new life for Kilpatrick.
Surrendered: The Rise, Fall & Revolution of Kwame Kilpatrick Page 28