By Philip Molestina
A story of man that lost the love of his life. Ever since he was a young man, he had a desire to love a girl. To walk down a road at sunset and hold her hand. Just a life together nothing more and nothing less.
Why decades later was this simple desire from the heart so difficult. How come life begins to flourish with so many romantic feelings and than it seems so quickly to get complicated with bills, work schedules, children and a number of other constraints that squash the feelings of just holding hands and loving someone?
Where did we make life so complicated. What number of things are raised up between 2 people that compell one of them to seek a life separate from the other?
Where are the vows and the plans of a life together for ever?
I have heard many people say, yes marriage is not easy. You got to work at it, it is give and take. Incredible that those moments that we are discovering that new relationship all is a smooth ride.
I can't help to think that we have some fault along the way and seek to complicate the relationship between 2 people.
If at some level we could maintain a portion of the inocense that you can see in children in our relationships, I think we would be so much happier.
Kids don't seem to complicate there lives. They see things through a set of
prisms we as adults don't seem to have available.
Oh how important it is today to rescue, that simple love that we at one time had with the person we have selected to have in our life for ever.
May we find the strength to tear down the weeds and to remove the rubble that has vanquished that which we once cherished with all our might.
This week I am fortunate enough to celebrate what at times is becoming a rarity, 20 years of marriage. Two decades, I never gave much thought if this time would come, I just lived my life with the desire that marriage would continue.
Challenges of many types have come across the spectrum of the last 20 years, yet here we stand with my wife on the brink of crossing the 20 year marker.
Is this reason to believe that the 21, 22 or 25th year is guaranteed? No of course not anything could happen but I seek to believe that this will continue not as a result of sheer luck but instead on that basis that God has a purpose for us as a marriage. We still have a task at hand that demands that we be together.
My faith is the foundation and the fuel is reaching back to the simple times of love and new beginings that brought us together 20 years ago. Believing that those foundations are key and will alllow us to continue.
My parting thought is that the reason that I chose to marry was because I did not want to be without you my love. And 20 years later the thought is the same, I have no desire to be without you and pray and hope that I would never have to encounter a day without you.
Happy 20 year anniversary Normita, I love you!
August 29, 2012