Thursday, August 18, 2005

True Love

True Love has driven a station wagon, a motor home, a mercedes, a pink cadillac, a "little toughy", a minivan, or a 20 year old convertible mustang and knows that the best road trips are always the ones that take you to unplanned destinations along the way...

True Love has lived in a one bedroom apartment, a duplex, a tract house, a near mansion, a house with no oven in the kitchen, an Urban condo, on a country club and everywhere in between, and knows that the best home is wherever a family lives together in happiness...

True Love always keeps sufficient wine in the rack and diet coke in the fridge...

True Love listens to John Denver eight tracks, tapes of little girls singing church songs, Charlotte Church, Celine Dion, Olivia Newton John, the Grease Soundtrack, or any free concert in the park...

True Love likes sitting in a hot tub, talking for hours on end...

True Love rides along in the golf cart just for fun because someone likes golfing so much...

True Love has had no money, lots of money, a little bit of money, more money, less money, and has always given to Church first and known that God will provide...

True Love has raised five children, who've found five awesome "significant others", all of whom would rather hang around with their parents than their friends...

True Love will fly across the country for a babysitting gig or eat leftovers for a month to send Nana where she's most needed...

True Love has always put faith in God at the center of their marriage, providing a shining example for family and friends of what happiness should look like...

True Love never leaves one good party in search of another!

Happy 43rd Anniversary to my favorite married couple! I love you tremendously and thank God everyday for giving me the perfect example of what marriage is all about!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Lisa -- Thank you for the beautiful Anniversary essay. "True Love" is pretty easy when you are lucky enough, like me, to be married to the world's finest person. Love & Misses, Dad

Unknown said...

Daddy,
Can you name the year the second picture was taken??

Anonymous said...

Once again I'm crying! You say everything so beautifully. Thank you! - I think that picture was taken at ND/St. Mary's in the fall of 1981.

Anonymous said...

I'm guessing January 1983 at El Saler Golf Club outside Valencia, Spain when we were there with you when you were studying in France. L & M, Dad