Life when lived to its fullest extent is not a fairy tale. It is made of circumstances and people as well. Both of them are so varied in structure and content and this is the most wonderful example of a vivential fabric that resists all adversities and challenges.
And the basic foundation of all this is the family that started by the junction of two individual lives, a man and a woman, united in love in the ups and downs of their living together and their raising of children now turn into men who altogether with the new women in their lives continue extending such a fabric throughout generations and new developing circumstances.
The uniqueness even if repeatedly present in every family founded on Christian moral values and under God´s protection, is the blending of two different personalities.
God has not made clones. He joins different upbringings and different perspectives and understanding of life, making of it the resilient net where the hardships of life, intermingled with the pleasures, successes and accomplishments bounce in a merry and at times a not so merry go round.
A bouncing that makes us remember the children´s chorus of the one hundred elephants jumping over a delicate spider web, hung between the branches of the human and divine love that allowed its forming in the first place.
God blesses and He blesses a lot. He had done so to us because He knew in His omniscience that we would badly need it to endure and overcome the trials that come our way and do make our walking a never ending unpredictable journey.
And trials we have had! Trials we presently endure while we hope they will end soon. Because we trust, because we hope, because we wait for the time of the Lord!
It is as I said not a fairy tale but a vivid one representing the outcome of our love. It is not a tale of serene placidity but a building up of a family out of two different upbringings and perspectives.
We only hope that your lives, dear sons and families, dear friends and acquaintances could be as ours so in your later days you be able to sit back, smile and joke about what it was, about what it could have been, and about what it will probably be until we are finally called to our final rest.
And the basic foundation of all this is the family that started by the junction of two individual lives, a man and a woman, united in love in the ups and downs of their living together and their raising of children now turn into men who altogether with the new women in their lives continue extending such a fabric throughout generations and new developing circumstances.
The uniqueness even if repeatedly present in every family founded on Christian moral values and under God´s protection, is the blending of two different personalities.
God has not made clones. He joins different upbringings and different perspectives and understanding of life, making of it the resilient net where the hardships of life, intermingled with the pleasures, successes and accomplishments bounce in a merry and at times a not so merry go round.
A bouncing that makes us remember the children´s chorus of the one hundred elephants jumping over a delicate spider web, hung between the branches of the human and divine love that allowed its forming in the first place.
God blesses and He blesses a lot. He had done so to us because He knew in His omniscience that we would badly need it to endure and overcome the trials that come our way and do make our walking a never ending unpredictable journey.
And trials we have had! Trials we presently endure while we hope they will end soon. Because we trust, because we hope, because we wait for the time of the Lord!
It is as I said not a fairy tale but a vivid one representing the outcome of our love. It is not a tale of serene placidity but a building up of a family out of two different upbringings and perspectives.
We only hope that your lives, dear sons and families, dear friends and acquaintances could be as ours so in your later days you be able to sit back, smile and joke about what it was, about what it could have been, and about what it will probably be until we are finally called to our final rest.
C´EST SI BON! IT IS GOOD!
It is good and feels good to be asked on the metro bus to give your seat to another guy who looked older than you, and then find out that he is only 55 years old while you still are only 71 out of the wonderful 104 of the young ones at heart.
C´EST SI BON! IT IS GOOD!
It is good and feels good to be asked on the metro bus to give your seat to another guy who looked older than you, and then find out that he is only 55 years old while you still are only 71 out of the wonderful 104 of the young ones at heart.
C´EST SI BON! IT IS GOOD!
IT IS AND FEELS SO GOOD TO HAVE A LOVING PARTNER BESIDE YOU FOR ALREADY 47 YEARS AND ONLY GOD KNOWS HOW MANY MORE!
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