My wife keeps good stories and some other writing material. It’s fun to look through them every so often. The other day, she found the following article taken from a publication called “Words To Live By” in some old family letters. When she read the article to me, I knew I needed to share it with you.
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Lifetime Of Love
Author Unknown
This Is Love: Knowing for certain and without any doubts that at last you belong somewhere.
We speak of love, wondering what it is, and I answer, this is what I’d like to think it is: The most wonderful thing in all your world, for suddenly you are complete. You are one with your wife, and for the first time in your life, you truly know her.
You live with her from day to day, and soon you realize that her looks mean nothing really, that it’s her real self that counts.
The little things, these are what stay with you. You smile at her across the brim of a crowd. You are thrilled whenever she suddenly appears. And you feel an ache when she is not there – the happiness which flows from being able to give of oneself to another, of knowing for certain and without any doubts that at last, finally, you belong somewhere.
Your love for her flourishes, deepening to such a level that it becomes almost pure. And, more than anything else you’ve ever felt in all your life before, you want only to give this warmth and security to her, give it to her with all your heart and soul and body.
No matter where you are, nor where she is, in a sense of the word you’re both still together. Your union with her becomes so tender, so terribly dear and close, you’re both that near to the perfect oneness…
It can be like this…
With faith, with God, with compassion and understanding, with trust and soul and heart, it can be like this…
And if it is, the reward becomes a lifetime of happiness on a level unimagined in common hours.
God bless,
Mark