Tale of reflection

Sometimes my friend as I lay in bed I can't sleep.

The days event's roll through my head and I feel the need to type my thoughts away.

What's that?

No, It was not a bad day.

On the contrary it was a good day.

A young couple at our Church were married today.

We had the pleasure to be of service to them.

How do you be of service you ask?

Well my love had the blessing of making the cake, and it was well done to say the least.



Not only did we get to build the cake, but we got to serve it to the guests.

Then we stayed and helped clean the church after the wedding was over.

Boasting you say?

Nay perish the thought!

It's just that I find such a simple pleasure in doing for others those simple things that mean so much.

I laugh and smile inside as I think about how we made tears of joy appear on the bride's face.

She and my love had planned the cake with much detail.

When the time came to make it. The stands to set it on she had picked out were not to be rented anywhere in town.

So we sent her after a disposable cheap stand while we went out and bought the ones she wanted to surprise her with.

How much did that cost you ask?

Service without cost means little I'd say.

And well the tears of appreciation and joy were priceless.

The cake was our gift to the bride and groom.

The stands were my simple way of blessing my Wife and the Bride.

But I reflect on our wedding as I type.

That lovely young girl with the head full of curls after many dates and special times together said yes to my proposal of marriage.

It was a simple wedding with colors of peach and light blue.

An old dear friend of her's played the organ.

Friends and family were all there.

My Bride hunted for a dress she found in a J.C. Penny's magazine that she just had to have.

It was the one and none other would do.

But no store was it to be found in locally so she went four hours away to a bigger town.

Her mom said on that trip, "I don't care how much it costs we are coming back with a dress!"

So at an outlet for Penny's in the bigger town she found it!

Her dress the one in the magazine!

I kid you not.

There was only one mind you, and it was exactly her size.

God is so good isn't he?

How's that?

Yes it was a nice dress, not terribly expensive less than two hundred dollars if I remember correctly.

She look absolutely amazing in it as she came down the aisle.

I wore the same old suit I always wore.

Simple you say?

Yes it was, we did not go through a great expense.

Yet thirteen years later we are still just as married as any couple who spent thousands of dollars on their wedding.

We've been to two weddings in the last couple of weeks, and as I listen to the vows being made I think about those I said so long ago.

I ponder those I should be doing better at keeping.

But then I smile at the knowledge that our love is standing the test of time.

Through bad times and good.

Through joy and sorrow.

It is ever growing, ever changing,

but always there.

Sigh......

We are getting older, though not out of the prime of our life by any means.

But our babies are far from babies now.

I'm starting to show a little gray at the temples, she's getting thinner on top.

This life like a puff of smoke here then gone........

but I have faith that our love will be there till our Lord calls us home.