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Topic: Husband and Wife (08/08/14)
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By Jim Newton
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Even when I called her that night, she was aloof and non-committal to another meeting. It took another call or two before she caved in and took pity on this feral man. There was no love at first sight. We just met and talked.
In retrospect, I see the Lord was presenting me with an angel. He had no intention of sending her into the fire unarmed. She could hold her own with this wild man. Her unassuming manner crept inside my heart and began to make changes. Our differences became the bonding material of a budding relationship. I suppose you would say our differences complimented one another. Don't get the wrong impression, we began to discover we had similar interests and beliefs to compliment those differences.
I was going to school by way of the GI Education Bill for Vietnam Veterans. I had no job. Caroll had a part-time job as a data processor for the state highway department. We were just kids. I was immature. Surely, she was not in possession of her faculties at the time. I asked her to marry me. The only promise I made was that I would always love her and have food on the table. Wasn't I that knight in shining armor?
Much to my dad's chagrin, after knowing one another only six months and me with no job, we married.
Love...I am not sure we knew the true meaning at the time. The Lord had his hand firmly on this union orchestrating every detail. We ate things that we then and now laugh about. There was the famous dog-food casserole made from potted meat and noodles. It was bare pantry days till I received the government school check. Then came the free dog or Tasmanian Devil as it turned out. We had no yard to leave him in when we left on errands or a night of eating real food and doing laundry at one of our parent's homes. The result of that was a totally destroyed house.
Our Lord blessed us with three of the most wonderful children one could ever ask for. He gave them to a husband and wife that had so little in the way of material things to offer. He gave them to a husband that was too busy being a rebel to stay with a job and develop a stable income. He gave that husband an angel for a wife and three children that have grown into people successful in life and beautiful, loving creations of God. How much more blessed can a non-deserving man be. I am rich beyond imagination, and thankful to God for the riches he has bestowed upon me. A wife that surely must be blind to love this man. Children that are what they are because of that angel God gave me for a wife.
October 12, 2014, will be our forty-first anniversary. I still feel a tingle when I see that stunning chipmunk smile of hers that I love so much. We still hold hands when we walk. I open doors for her. We kiss many times a day. We sleep with our arms around one another. In the night, we kiss each other and say, "I love you." When one of us leaves without the other, we stand at the door and do silly waves till they are out of sight. We love doing things together. I love you, Caroll Lynn.
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Lovely story, sweet and well written. May God give you many more years together as husband and wife.
God bless you both~