Friday, October 17, 2008

Ain't Love Grand?

Sitting in Starbucks, preoccupied with the economy, the election and a world consumed with war and rumors of war, I was feeling pretty grim.

And then I got to watch a couple having their engagement pictures taken. They looked at each other with such devotion, love and happiness...and I remembered the last time someone looked at me like that. It was this morning as Sainted Wife was leaving for work. It's the same look I get every morning, no matter what kind of mood we'd been in the night before. The look that says, "When the day's over, no matter what happens, I want you to come home to me.". I always have and I always will.

In this land of confusion, if you're as lucky as I am to have someone who wants you around when you can't even stand yourself then you're very, very blessed.

Faith, hope and love...and the greatest of these is love.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

... and nothing's better than true love, except maybe an MLT -- that's mutton, lettuce and tomatoe -- where the tomatoes are ripe, and the mutton is nice and lean...

I know this is not word for word, but it begged to be loosely quoted in this context.