On Tuwana's flight to Memphis on January 21, 2023; she wrote a love letter to her husband Kendrick. Though she wasn't able to give it to him prior to the attack; this letter of unconditional love has taught her what it truly means to love like Yeshua does.

My dearest husband Kendrick Andra Jefferson,

This journey that Yahweh has given us to take together I must admit has not been easy. Though I knew we would have a few issues, I had no idea what was in store for us. As much as I want to give up on us, my love for you won’t allow me to. I realize more and more each day why Yah chose us for each other.

Love is a choice. So I choose to love you! Though I don’t like the way that you treat me, I understand who you are and why you do the things you do. Most importantly, I know that Yah wants me to see you how He sees you. I understand that our destinies are tied together. I can’t fulfill my destiny without you and you can’t fulfill your destiny without me.

Yah knew our backgrounds. He knew the rejection that we would experience. He even knew how we both would be interested in other people that would use us as pawns in their worldly games. Because we couldn’t get the love we both so desperately wanted from others, He put us together so we could experience true love the way He intends.

“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 13 NLT

As I read 1 Corinthians 13 again, I realize that even though I have experienced unconditional love from Yah, I was loving you conditionally. Yah had already shown me the problems we would have prior to us ever getting together to prepare me. Instead of recognizing what was happening, I allowed my feelings to get the best of me. Because love is a decision and not a feeling, I realized that I was loving you with conditions. Love with conditions really isn’t love at all because real Love never fails. Love doesn’t waver when faced with adversity. Love endures to the end.

I didn’t choose you and you didn’t choose me, but Yah chose us for each other. I’m making the decision to love all of you because our union is ordained by God. I choose you until death do us part because I want to stand before our Heavenly Father and hear Him say “well done my good and faithful servant.”

So from this day forward 1/21/23 I choose to serve you as if I’m serving the Lord. That doesn’t mean that I will put up with disrespect, manipulation, cheating, and other foolish behavior. Yahweh loves you unconditionally, but His promises come with conditions. You cannot mistreat me and expect your prayers to be heard.

My choice to love you means that I will never give up on Yahweh’s purpose and plan for us. I will make a conscious effort everyday to love you even when you’re unloveable. I choose to believe that Yahweh’s promises to me will be fulfilled if I continue to love you like I’ve been instructed to do. I choose to love you because Yah loves you. I choose to live out 1 Corinthians 13 because that’s how Yah loves us. Yah is love! I choose to love you like Yah loves you!

I choose to always be patient, kind, and thoughtful. I won’t be jealous or rude to you. I will allow Yah to convict you of your transgressions against me. I will rejoice when you see the error of your ways and seek your good all the days of my life. I will keep my faith in Yahweh’s promises concerning you, continue to hope for better days, and love you all the days of my life with reckless abandonment regardless of what you choose to do.

Your Rib,

Tuwana Nicole Jefferson

T&K