My wife happened to mention our anniversary to her interpreter for one of her classes one day. She was telling him that I was going to buy some tickets to go on a sunset cruise aboard the Western Union schooner. He said he would love to get us free tickets(he is a city commissioner in key west). $60/person free tickets. I said “sure, whatever” not expecting anything.
Well I met Mr. Menendez and you talk about an interesting “write a book about me" kind of guy. He was a stowaway from Cuba aboard a ship at the age of 10. WW2 rolled around so he lied about his age and joined the marines. 9 years later the war was over so the Government sent him to his home or as close as they could get, which meant Key West. He Hasn’t left. He has more stories than Hemingway if you simply ask him.
So! Dude man knows everybody and gave us tickets to everything. I eat lunch with him now, as a great reality check and just a healthy perspective of things. I’m hoping to bring the gospel into our conversation, but I’m probably just scared of the delivery and the follow up that usually follows the type of delivery you deliver.
Picture of cruise.
woman and I going out to partake in the sunset cruise. It was cool, but a 30 mph wind blowing from the captain's wheel would have been an evening to remember. We enjoyed it though, calm, no dramatic sunset, but just being on the water with each other was nice.
My woman did write me a note later that touched me in a big way. I wish I could have written something to remember the moment, but to be honest I'm just too emotional to put the last year into words.
I must say that I have been more proud of my wife than anyone else in my whole life. Simply because she has endured the torturous line that my life seems to follow. I don't know why, it's just the way God has made it. I guess it's like David's line verses Abraham's line, both equally important, but one has a tad more "Hollywood" type material, if you know what I mean. She has bent over backyards, to the point of complete sacrifice, to make me happy. Even beyond her own ability to recover completely.
So! I must allow the following to be stated as a complete understatement of how I feel about her. But! since she wrote it, I have to be aware of the fact that she is more aware of our situation than I am.
This is what she wrote:
”Though there are times when life seems more of a tortuous trek than an adventure, and though I seem to more often cry than smile, and though I feel as a stranger blindly traipsing across foreign terrain, there is a peace that wells up inside me that overwhelms my mind and soul when I see you – when I gaze upon your peaceful slumber. I have only to think about your brilliant blue eyes and happy, sheepish grin and I can’t help but know that this love we share is the very thread that, at this time in our lives, is holding us up. Jesus’ Spirit pulsates between us so that together our life is sustained, even when, perhaps one of us is down. Yes, I have known fainter hints of peace – but the gift of sharing peace with my love is so satisfying. And seeing peace on your countenance as you sleep there beside me fills me with a peace I only can know through you, because we are sharing this life – and this peace – between us. “
God has truly made our marriage a oneness through His Love, Wisdom and Power in all situations. At this moment in time we don't have a lot of peace. Just little moments with each other and God Himself. I can see Him in her and she can see Him in me, so we are literally drawn to each other by Him. We maybe in "paradise", but I'm realizing that peace only comes from the realization of a person's future.
Paradise without water to drink is the anticipation of hell with no end.
We have never realized the magnitude of our weakness until now. Yet at the same time we are finally understanding the magnitude of our strength, together in Christ. I want to say “Bring it on! Big Bad World of Crap!” but at the same time I know exactly what that means.
Speak softly, and carry a nuclear Jesus bomb in your heart.
2 comments:
Happy Anniversary Adam and Christine. Love your site, keep it coming!
I am making my way through this blog and I swear, one minute I'm laughing and the next minute I'm crying! I can barely see the screen for the tears in my eyes. The love you guys share is one that's worth waiting for. You two are iron sharpening iron and the process, albeit somewhat painful, couldn't be more beautiful.
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