I know many whom expect this kind of Love. What about you? Do you
believe that it is possible?




Real Love...

I was sitting on an old worn-velvet loveseat in the preacher's living
room. Nestled close beside me was Kelly, my beautiful bride-to-be. It
would heave been difficult to slide even a thin book between us.
Across from us, in seperate chairs perhaps ten feet apart, sat the
preacher and his wife, both in their late seventies. She nodded her gray
head and smiled and listened and rocked as her hands worked a rapid
rythum with yarn and knitting needles. He was relaxed and into an old
stuffed recliner, busily jotting notes in a small, well-used black
notebook.
As we discussed the details of our wedding ceremony, I found myself
watching the old couple, not as a preacher and preacher's wife, but as
husband and wife. Suddenly something struck me. Those two, sitting in
seperate chairs with more than three yards between them, conveyed more
love with a single meeting of their eyes than my girlfriend and I were
exchanging with all our snuggling, grinning and whispered endearments.
I still remember thinking, " How do we get from here to there, from
where we are in our eager young love to where they are in there loving
maturity?"
Marriage is a stage on which real love-the kind the apostle Paul would
describe as the greatest virtue-can be enacted for the world to see:
the kind of love that enables us to endure wrong with patience, to
resist evil with conviction, to enjoy the good things with gusto, to
give richly of ourselves with humility, and to nurish another's soul
with long-suffering.
When all these virtues are present, not only is each marriage partner
incomparably blessed, but sometimes a couple of new apprentices about to
take their place on this same stage, can catch a glimpse of what the
marriage relationship could be- a glimpse that won't let them settle for
anything less.
Thank you God.
Patrick
Until..

absolutely great ..Will : ) : O)