Welcome to OysterBed7 where the water is fine!
My name is Bonny Logsdon Burns and I am the woman behind Pearl. My husband, Mr. Muscle, and I have been married over 26 years. We have three sons (which includes twins) and one daughter-in-law, all in their 20's.
Mr. Muscle and I were raised in Indiana farm country. But, our hearts have belonged to Wilmington, NC, since 1998.
Superficial sex of my college years left me feeling like a void. God heard the cries of my hurting soul and sent a good man who overlooked my past. I grew to know the Lord better and became a forgiven girl and an eternally grateful woman.
At about the 15th year of marriage, we endured a major hurricane of crisis. We found healing through nakedness, physical and emotional. My half of our restoration involved reclaiming sexual intimacy, therefore at OysterBed7 I focus primarily on bolstering the low-libido wife.
Superficial sex of my college years left me feeling like a void. God heard the cries of my hurting soul and sent a good man who overlooked my past. I grew to know the Lord better and became a forgiven girl and an eternally grateful woman.
At about the 15th year of marriage, we endured a major hurricane of crisis. We found healing through nakedness, physical and emotional. My half of our restoration involved reclaiming sexual intimacy, therefore at OysterBed7 I focus primarily on bolstering the low-libido wife.
To read our story:
Low Libido does not have to be a permanent condition!
I want you to have HOPE. Each day will bring good, especially regarding the intimacy you have with your husband.
I want you to have HOPE. Each day will bring good, especially regarding the intimacy you have with your husband.
"Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you,and your hope will not be cut off," Proverbs 24:14
"I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future," Jeremiah 29:11.
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day, For our light and momentary troubles are achieving us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:16.
Other Random Bonny Pearl Facts:
I have a love/hate relationship with yard work. We live in zone 8, weeds and plants grow like they're on steroids. Last summer, we had people both praise our yard and complain.
Mr. Muscle and I are less opposites than we used to be. The four best things we share in common is our faith in the Lord, love of music, laughter and travel. I collect refrigerator magnets from our travels.
Mr. Muscle and I are trained facilitator's for the Dynamic Marriage class through familydynamics.net.
Post-apocalyptic is my favorite genre of movie. I like to ponder if I would have the wits and guts to survive a zombie epidemic or alien invasion.
Genealogy is my continuing hobby (since 2000). I love how you can intangibly touch history through it.
I was our church secretary for 10 years. Mr. Muscle calls me his sexretary....
I love body glitter, sequins, pixie dust, rhinestones, and a moonlit ocean.
Music is a part of my soul
I sing in a ladies' 4 part acapella group (Barbershop style) called the Harmony Belles. We perform at community events, civic and social functions.
In my current life, not many people know that I trained as a classical pianist and was my home church's organist. I accompanied choirs in high school and college. (Flubbing up in front of an audience teaches humility.) The last four years of my study was with a post doctoral student at what used to be called Indiana Central. I'll be forever grateful to my parents for what they gave me culturally and musically. It wasn't just a frivolous skill, in the end I earned money teaching beginners and it taught p.a.t.i.e.n.c.e.
In my current life, not many people know that I trained as a classical pianist and was my home church's organist. I accompanied choirs in high school and college. (Flubbing up in front of an audience teaches humility.) The last four years of my study was with a post doctoral student at what used to be called Indiana Central. I'll be forever grateful to my parents for what they gave me culturally and musically. It wasn't just a frivolous skill, in the end I earned money teaching beginners and it taught p.a.t.i.e.n.c.e.
I saw Liberace when I was 14 in a box seat with my dad at the Starlight Musical in Indianapolis. I don't know how dad got those tickets, but we were close enough I could almost touch Liberace's virgin mink stole. Oh, and I also played saxophones; baritone, tenor and alto. I marched with the alto.
OysterBed7 was launched in March 2012. I wrote anonymously as Pearl until March 2013 when I revealed my true identity. In order to be more relational and to work effectively in my real life community, I needed to come into view.
WHY I ADORE PEARLS
Pearls are created when an irritant (such as a parasite or grit of sand) becomes lodged in the flesh of a mollusk. A pearl sac is formed around the invader to stop further damage to the flesh. Layers and layers of nacre (mother of pearl substance) seal off the irritant.
The trials of my life have been the grit. The Lord has blessed me with layer upon layer of beautiful luster. The luster comes from the layer of joy, layer of peace, layer patience, layer of gentleness, layer of self-control, layer of wisdom/discernment, layer of wonderment of the workings of the Holy Spirit.
Each layer was enormously painful. But, in the end it's beautiful. Without those trials of grit, I don't know if I would be as compassionate as I am today. My heart's candle burns a little brighter.
