At last real love

Saying for the Day:There is nothing in all the world that can compare to true love.

It’s archeological Tuesday and we dig in the box, again. There is a copy of a summer class schedule. It is faded and you can hardly make out the classes.

That’s okay because this artifact doesn’t speak to me of education but of love.

It was the summer after my second year in seminary. I was going back to Northern to finish a Master’s degree just in case this pastor thing failed and God gave me something else to do.

She was standing on the other side of the registration desk and the moment I saw her I was in love again. This was love.

It was not like Jeannie, or the nurse.

It was more like napkin girl only better.

It was heart pounding, unbelievable love.

She didn’t see me or I know she would have felt the same.

I read well upside down ( a necessary survival tool for a college student) and so I read her registration card. Now I knew where she was staying.

The next day I called her . I decided to try truth and told her I saw her at registration and would like to meet her. Much to my surprise she said she had seen me as well. ( I didn’t know my staring was that obvious) I invited her to ride out to the health camp where I had worked ( a 30 mile drive)

I expected her to say , “ Get lost jerk” but she said yes.
It was wonderful. It was unbelievable . I was going to be in the same car with her.

On the same seat with her.

So Saturday came and we drove. Ten minutes into the drive it was no longer I who was in love it was we.

The heavens had begun to open. I could see that special lightning.

It was love.

Fifteen minutes later I stopped the car. I put my arm around her and I kissed her.

Me! The guy so shy that he could hardly hold a girl’s hand, kissed her

Now the heavens opened.

Now the birds sang.

Now the bells rang.

We were in love. O, we were in love.

I went back to driving.

I stopped the car again.

I proposed right there and then.

I know I should have waited until I could do the kneeling bit and all that but I was in love. She looked at me. The car grew silent .
She said…

YES!

She said YES. Now the heavens opened the rest of the way.

The bells were louder . The birds sang more beautifully. The ground opened and swallowed us up.

We were in love . We were going to get married. Everything was right with the world.

Well almost right. There was little matter of telling her parents, my parents, and of course Gram .

But we didn’t care we were in love.

The wife I have now said “ You don’t need this old registration card why not get rid of it.

But I never will. Once I was in love , really in love.

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The new wheel chair came today. It is really fancy. I , however am doing a lot more walking with the walker and even a little without it. I had my meals in the kitchen today for the first time since I fell. I notice a number of comments that suggest todays blog is not the end of the story and of course they are right. Next Tuesday I'll dig back in the box and the story will continue if I find the right artifact. So many questions. Where does Betty come in? Do I marry Kathryn? Whatever happened to napkin girl? Some might even get answered.
Betty is ordering some buildings for the HO layout. She has also decided to put together the iron mine kit. It needs to be soldered so she is learning to soder. Well I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA