TWO HEARTS IN LOVE

I met a girl. And she was pretty and smart and she laughed at my jokes. She was fun to be around and we talked and talked and talked. It seems like there was nothing we couldn’t talk about. I would be on the phone with her for hours and I never wanted it to end. We went out on dates to fine restaurants and movies. We went out to museums and bike rides in the park. Sometimes we just went for a walk around a new area where we had never been. It became an implied Saturday night date with her. My James Cagney-like demeanor was defeated, I could not go on thinking that I was alright without a girlfriend. I wanted to be with her.

 

I met a woman. My pretty girl saw me in all my flaws. We went away for a weekend and had a great time being together for more than just a few hours on a Saturday night. Now it was 24 hours with her and me, in a foreign place that we had never been to. And I couldn’t hide who I was by leaving for another place away from her eyes. I was judged. And you know she didn’t care. She accepted me for who I was, flaws and all. And I accepted her 100% too. I saw everything she was and I liked it. Dare I said that I loved it. Pretty soon, Saturdays became Friday through Sunday. Then I could not leave her on Sunday and I left on Monday morning instead. Then I came back for a Wednesday night date. And we talked and talked and talked. I could look in her eyes and I saw something. I saw our future together. I saw my reason to believe that love was a possibility for me. And I think she saw that in my eyes too.

 

I met my wife. I made the changes in my life to accommodate another person to share this life with. And that beautiful woman was walking down the aisle in the little chapel where we were married with all our friends and family watching. And I saw our journey together start with those steps and the commitment we made to each other that day. And from then on, it has been the wildest of rides, ups and downs, wonderful children, see our lives unfold together. And during that time, we discovered our spiritual path together. And we created a path that went to include others in marriage who were struggling with their relationships with each other. We poured into them to help them save their marriages. We walked beside them, providing them with an example of how to develop that deep relationship that we have. And to look back and see who they were when they first met and their journey in life together.

 

Today, I see my beautiful wife of 29 years and still see our future in her eyes.