One day in 2023 I was delivering frozen food to a lady for a company I used to work for. Her name was Mrs. Gabriel, and she lived on Whinlatter Drive, in the city of Barrow. As I brought the food into her house that morning, she said:
“You know I woke up early this morning, and I thought to myself, ‘I’d better not wake my husband,’ so I crept out of bed and came quietly into the kitchen.”
And then she looked at me, and she said smiling:
“Do you know he’s been dead for over ten years.”
I replied, “Oh wow, Mrs. Gabriel, that’s so wonderful. How long were you married?”
She replied, “We were married for over sixty years.”
And she smiled at me again. ‘I’m 95,’ she said.
I left her house that morning thinking to myself, “that is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. A man and woman so shaped their lives together, that even ten years after his death, she remembers him, and is shaping her life by the man he was - the man she loved.”
And I thought to myself, I want to be like Mrs Gabriel. I want to be married for sixty years, and when I die (if I should die first, which I probably will) I want my influence on Linda’s life to have been such that even ten years after I’m dead, she’s thinking of me.
Then Jesus answered, and said unto them … “But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female: For this cause shall man leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife. And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. Therefore, what God hath coupled together, let not man separate.”
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How simply beautiful
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