Forty years is a long time but it is also only a blink of an eye. Just yesterday I had smooth taut skin, loads of energy day and night. Hubby was as strong as a moose and had brown hair. Today I have skin! Tee Hee!! I'll settle for that! My energy level is not quite so high, yet it's still good, but I can no longer go day and night, and Hubby has white hair. We'll not talk about the color of my hair!!
In our early years we lived in apartments longing for a home, lived in big, old fix-up houses, little farm houses, and then finally came to rest in a home at last where I could watch my roses and herbs grow and Hubby could have his horses out back. We were always sort of the semi-gypsy type. Land in a place for awhile, get bored and move again but we are finally settled.
We were two completely different people, Hubby and me. I always said I haven't any idea how we got together. No two people were more "night and day" than we were and still are. Different yet sharing a lifetime. Let me tell you - that's not been an easy road for either of us. People always told me that when you find the right man, you will know. Well, I guess I'm odd because I kept asking, "how do you know for sure?" I had found that nothing was for sure in this life. I guess I was simply afraid for I had lived just long enough to see people falling madly in and out of love.
The only thing I know for sure is that God gave me Hubby. I reached a crossroads 40 years ago when I stopped, listened and I could actually hear God telling me, "I gave him to you once before, this is it. This is the last time." The once before is another entirely different story for a later time - but all that being said, I decided if God talked, I'd better listen.
So here we are 40 years later. We no longer walk as two separate individuals - we are very definitely walking this life as one. I finally get the whole "you shall become one" idea.
True love is much more than romance, giggles and whisperings of sweet-nothings. It's far-reaching, purposeful, deep, sensual, difficult, gut-wrenching, lasting and peaceful. Just words my friends, just words, for love is only described rightfully by the person who feels it - so you decide. What is true love? How do you know for sure?
Forty years seems like a long time but just yesterday I was waking up . . .