Tuesday, March 25, 2014

a great big 'sapfest'

So it's not gonna be easy. 
It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. 
 I want all of you, forever, everyday. 
You and me... everyday.”
-Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook 

 
I’ve been thinking about these two kids all month. It’s hard to put into words how I feel about them.  Despite their age & against all odds, today they will have been married twenty-five years. 


Yeah. If you haven’t already guessed it, these two babies are me & my Chuck. 

When I look at this picture I can’t help but wonder if we even had a clue what saying “I do” meant or what that commitment would create.  Oh we did have youthful hopes & dreams for our life together but I doubt we could have ever imagined the life we have for ourselves. 

As far as I can remember, we knew just two things. 
We loved each other to the point of distraction & we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together.


 So here we are twenty-five years later. 


Three beautiful children.

  A beautiful daughter-in-law.

   & a daughter-in-law to be.

   A life.

Somehow in this moment money doesn’t matter, our jobs don’t matter, our stuff doesn’t matter…
what does matter is the legacy of love we are leaving our children & our grandchildren. 


We love, because He first loved us. -1 John 4:19
 



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