My Beloved Husband, James A. Kennedy, DVM, MS
HEADLINE…”Two old people fall into a forever love! Unbelievable story with an unbelievable ending!”
Why read this book?…Because there is nothing like it!
How can you trust it is different from any other book of its kind on the market? Because this is a true love story, including original e-mail messages between a lonely woman who asks, “Who is ever gonna want me?” and a humble, lonely veterinarian who find each other, marry, and live through the deepest love and deepest tragedy in only six months of time. It is 100% authentic and has the real words of a top U.S. large animal veterinarian who loved to fly his small plane as well as share his boundless bovine knowledge, and a lonesome and longing,
disjointed woman.
There are many “short story” fiction love stories. There are many “diaries” of love affairs. There are many “memoirs”. But there are no true love stories with more than 500 actual original personal quips, photographs and images, that carry the reader along a factual journey of pursuit, a divine match, everyday life and then a total breath-taking ending. The book ends with a mind-blowing e-mail that is totally unbelievable.
You will be absorbed into an amazing love affair that progresses into the highest of joys and the deepest of traumas and has a completely unexpected ending. It is documented life in the raw.
You will ask, “How could the author open up like she did and risk everything for the whole world to see?” “How could a small town veterinarian and a big city girl ever meet?” “How did the author have the strength to write this story?” “How can you endure what life throws at you?”
Why read My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz?
- It’s true.
- It has real words with real joy and trauma and revelations about survival.
- It carries the reader along in total submission to seek the ending.
- It may contain some of the most beautiful love letters and prayers ever.
- It has an astonishing ending.
- All royalties go to one of Jim’s favorite veterinary organizations.
Can a book cause the reader to “gut-feel’ the character and faith of two people? Can a memoir grab your curiosity and cause you to chuckle and also cry out “How could this have happened?”
This book is also different than others because there are very few authors who give all the royalties away. In this case, they will go to veterinarians who serve worldwide.
All I wanted to do was to honor a humble man and tell the story of two people falling in the deepest love against all odds. If you want to step into two people’s lives, find out the answers to all these questions, and be inspired to embrace life with hope, this is My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz.
A Book for Animal and Romance Lovers
Many diverse groups will be satisfied reading such a book as My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz.
Romance lovers and the veterinarian/animal science world (Jim Kennedy has a nationwide reputation) who may think it’s about medical stuff, but find it is a real-life love story of one of the leading U. S. large animal veterinarians, are two collections of readers attracted to this book. Hurting, lonely, searching people, looking-for-love people, hounding-for-hope people will be drawn into this book. Small plane enthusiasts will appreciate this book.
Cattlemen and ranchers, cow/calf operators, and RFD-TV lovers will enjoy this book. Souls searching for grief recovery will be encouraged by this true story. Millions of people who have undergone multiple major surgeries can relate to this book. Tips on a great marriage are everywhere to be found.
People want to escape into a book that draws them in and they want to see how it all turns out. We all are looking for a guide to aid us in maintaining hope while going through life’s loves and lashings. We all ask at one time or another, “Where can I find relief from life’s hurts?” This book also may contain what may be the most beautiful love letters and prayers ever.
What three words best describe the story? Gripping, unbelievable, and true. What three words describe the characters in this book? Lonely, humble, and seeking.
All souls want to escape their lives at times, and get absorbed in a great story they can’t put down. Everyone will experience grief at some time, this book deals with this first hand. People need to hear about “character” in these days of everyday bad news and turmoil. Love is found almost on every page. What or Who can soothe such hard times we all are faced with? Is there an answer?
Do you want to read a “diary” of a lonely, humble veterinarian and a shy, searching woman and how their lives collide into a forever love? Do you want to witness two people’s lives in the raw, with nothing withheld? Will you believe such a story as this actually happened? How could such a plot twist and ending ever actually occur?
Do you want to read the unrefined memoir of two lovers that will grab you with tears, laughter and shock? This is My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz.
The Four “H’s” of “My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz”
The key message of my new book is hope. Humility, humor, and honor come in as close seconds!
You must have hope while searching for everlasting love. This story is really God’s story, through Jim. I am just a vehicle to tell the story. It will inspire readers to embrace romance and never lose hope. True love can happen even at an older age! This book proves real love does exist and it can be a take-your-breath-away experience. Readers will see and feel this love and also the character of Dr. Jim Kennedy. Jim and I based our lives on the hope of eternity together in heaven also. We shared this foundation of a living hope in a real God that comforts us and a happiness that is laid up for us.
Jim Kennedy’s main character trait is humility. He always put me first from the day I met him. Jim told me before we married that it was not going to be about “us”, but about me, and it was going to be “100 percent” of him for me. What an amazing basis for a successful marriage. He has been the most humble person I have ever met.
He always sought out to never boast of his accomplishments or his hard work. In his letter to the CVMA editor (Colorado Veterinary Medical Association) upon his 2007 Veterinarian of the Year Award, he stated, “To select an individual veterinarian, as being outstanding is truly impossible–every veterinarian is outstanding. Every veterinarian each day does something outstanding that warrants, but most often escapes, recognition. With my acceptance of this honor I hope all would understand that every veterinarian shares in it; it is not my honor, but the profession’s honor.”
Charles F. Stanley said, “God is far more interested in the spirit of humility than in great works. The truth is, all great works are of little value in His eyes unless they come from a spirit of humility that recognizes it is God in us who does His work.” Email after email and our true adventures in the book show Jim’s humble heart. This book proves what real love is, what real character is, and what true faith is. Jim always gave tribute to God for whatever gifts he was given, be it his intelligence, awards, blessings or faith.
Jim’s incredible sense of humor is all through the book including “Ernie the Farmer,” “The Pastor and the Purple Showercap,” “Niagara Falls, Robin Hood, and Porky Pig,” “Look, I Can Skip,
” and “No Crows in Church.” I have never gut-laughed so much in my entire life. What a genius scientist with a hilarious humanity!
Jim Kennedy is the most extraordinary man I will ever know. I will honor, dignify and esteem him as long as I am on this earth. All royalties from this book will go to one of Jim’s favorite veterinary organizations. This honors Jim and God. If you want to laugh, get swept away in a true romance, get in on a lonely veterinarian’s soul and a shy, hurt woman’s spirit, and learn some important life lessons, then this book is for you.
Tunneling Through the Process of Writing a Memoir
All words and activities between Jim and I involved laughter and love. I decided to include most of the over 1,000 actual emails Jim had saved on his smartphone proving our deep relationship.
It took me more than two months just to transfer all the emails from his phone onto my computer, print them off, order them, decide which ones to share to the world, and build our story around them. Each email is still “alive” and causes me hilarity or tears. This book took almost 15 months to put together, sometimes going 14 hour days. What an intense introduction into the music industry to obtain the three lyric licenses for the hymns used, one international license from London. What an intense education into the legalities of publishing any part of photos, images, quotes, articles and websites.
This memoir details a romance story full of life lessons about love, hope and faith. I share everything. I do not hold back personal thoughts and words and beliefs. They are for the world to see. This is very risky but I have taken that chance to share this amazing, one-of-a-kind story. Everyone has their own “story,” but how hazardous is it to put our stories into print? Is the risk worth taking?
I tried to answer these questions…How long does one have to wait till they meet their true love? Is there hope for finding true love after divorce or after 50 or 60 years of age? How do shields come down and love finally penetrate? Can I show how the love for God shines through in this book? How does one get through the lashings of life? How can I inspire readers to embrace romance and never lose hope?
Entering the dating world after age 50, this book uses my own life experiences to teach us how to persevere when confronted with hardship. Readers will laugh and cry as two strangers grow in deep love and experience life’s joys and hurts together.
The only way I could write this book was to access the powerful force behind it to actually live through the joy and trauma of writing each word. My hope and faith in God is that force. Without it, this book would never have been written. I screamed many times, How can I write this down? How can I share these most personal words of love and trials and come out of it as a champion? There was agony involved writing this book. There was utter mushy, love-sickness writing this book. There were trips to the doctor for the chest pain of trauma and a broken heart. There were many times I had to stop for several days just to recover from the power of putting these words in print.
An email from author, LoRee Peery, to me in August 2013, partially sums up the writing of this book, the process, the pain, the perseverance:
“Psalm 126:5-6:
He who goes out weeping
carrying seed to sow (Jim’s book)
will return with songs of joy
carrying sheaves with him (even if you never know).
That’s my prayer for you.”
LoRee Peery www.loreepeery.com Romance Author, White Rose Publishing
From one who has been through life’s best and worst, you can go on if you have hope. I never forget one of Jim’s main sayings, “Just plow to the end of the road.”
Behind the Scenes of My New Book, “My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz”
I never thought there was a man like Jim Kennedy. As soon as we started communicating, I knew there was something very special about this man. When we met it started a whirlwind of love, belly-hurting laughter and drama and I knew I had to write a true book about this incredibly intelligent scientist with amazing wit and humor and an intense love for his work, his family, his wife and his God. Showing Jim’s humility and character were my main reasons for writing this book.
I originally was going to write a book about all my many over-50-years-old dating experiences titled, You Are So Write For Me, but when I met Jim, that all changed.
I am the only one who has the more than 1,000 original e-mails between Jim and me. I wrote this book to honor Jim the man, his humility, his achievements and his character. This is a man who needs to be remembered and honored! This is what drove me to write this book. What an incredible man! It was worth the fifteen months of joy and pain to write this book.
This book opens up the most personal relationship between a man and a woman through the wooing of top veterinarian Dr. Jim Kennedy and his attempts to break down the impenetrable shields I had put up from a lifetime of hurt, trauma and loneliness. I searched and waited and prayed for my “cowboy knight” and through divine intervention and a Christian dating website met Jim, and our life together is detailed with love dripping off of almost every page.
We all have burdens but some of us get an excess amount. So I have had my universal struggles of life, but also have had to persevere extraordinary circumstances. A strict and traumatic childhood, a failed marriage, five major surgeries on one of my children, church and family betrayals, death of the closest loved ones, and five total joint replacements on myself (alone) within three years are just a few of the challenges I have endured.
Before I met Jim, I wanted to give up. Then I heard about a horse named “Hero,” at a horse rescue ranch in Bend, Oregon. Someone had shot him and left him for dead in the wilderness. With his eyeball hanging out, a horrendously infected leg, losing most of his blood and body weight, he struggled to stand to just survive. He was found and rescued and now is a testimony to Ephesians 6:13…”and having done everything to stand firm.” This horse gave me the encouragement I needed to go on…If a beat up, left-for-dead horse can stand and try to survive, I surely can, I determined. After all the years since then, I finally got to meet Hero the horse the summer of 2013. It was awesome putting my arms around this one-eyed but beautiful horse and telling him I was sorry for his pain and thanking him for helping me through a rough time.
My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz is a true story, a romance, a dreams-do-come true documented journey.
I will stand, I will survive, I choose hope.
