The Man I Adore.

There are many people who walk into and out of ours lives, but every once in a while someone walks into our lives that stops the world. Someone that brings hope and makes you rethink everything you know.  Sometimes this stop is sudden, sometimes it is soft and slow.

There is a man that I have known from the time that I was a girl. He has always been kind and important to me. I have slowly come to love and respect him through the years. I have always known that he was a good man.

I few years ago he lost his wife to illness. I watched him slowly fade into a lonely place as he missed the women he had loved dearly. His eyes became sad. His smiles were forced and full of sadness. His hugs were sincere yet empty. It was absolutely heartbreaking to watch his heart and body slowly die. I watched this father figure slip into a soft state of lost.

Then one day like magic a women seemed to float into his life. It was as if the sun had risen on him once again. He was new again. His smile was brighten through the power of a new love. The whole thing seems miraculous as every Sunday when church is over he seeks out his irreplaceable love. His face is brighter than I have ever known it to be. He smiles with a new kind of goofy abandonment. Love bring life, it brings hope, it brings change.

There is a part of myself, in fact all of myself that questions whether I will ever know that kind of love. However the fact that this dear man has found it means that it exists. It means that someone has found it. This new love brings comfort to me each time I see it. This love was truly a miracle and tender mercy of the Lord that I am so thankful to witness each Sunday.

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being." ~Tom Robbins