You're Still The One

     You're still the one!  Wow!  After years of marriage if you can say those words to someone special then Life is Good!  It's also very unusual. We're still having fun cause you're still the one!  Love takes time, work, patience and lots of affection but not just expressed once, it needs a Life time of special moments and of course let's not forget the occasional well deserved maintenance!  We all need time away to renew and time to rebuild depending on the degree of problems, because we tend to forget our promises we made to each other before God and how much or how deep our Love goes!  Sometimes that Love gets put on the back burner and it gets a little scorched!  It gets a little over done!  Love needs tender Loving care just like anything else important.  The Love of our Life is just like a flower, a beautiful delicate flower.  We need to nurture, water and ever so gently give it fertilizer to keep it beautiful.  If we don't take care of the flower it soon withers and dies just like our Love. 
     We get so busy with the stresses of life, kids, jobs, yard work, sports, school and homework that we forget what started this whole saga in the first place.  Just think back - back to that special moment!  Remember that touch, that look, that special note or that first date!  Was it that slow dance in high school?  Was it that first meeting of eye to eye contact in English Class?  Could it have been that date at the fraternity party or that smell of English Leather?  Could it have been that meeting at Mr. Swiss for burgers or that gentle touch on the neck under the long blond hair that sent shivers down the spine!  Oh Yeah!  I think I'm beginning to remember!  We don't want to lose those beautiful memories we want to savor them forever!
     We need to stop and remember God's blessings and the memories of when our Love began!  Ask yourself where are you now?  What happened in between then and now?  Where has your Love gone?  Is it stuck in a rut?  Is it in need of a rehaul or is it building and building as each day goes by?  What was so special then that caused you to think, "I want to be with this person for a lifetime, forever!  I want to wake up beside him and go to sleep with him everyday of my life!
     Love is so crazy, you can't explain it or describe it.  With Love, a person takes a big chance to show affection and to except affection.  What caused your heart to go pitter patter?  The reasons for falling in Love are enormously different for each individual person.  Thank goodness because if that were not so only a portion of the world would fall in Love and be happy.
     Our mind sometimes goes or forgets a little or a lot of information as we get older.  Wouldn't it be sad to not think about how our life really started and in what direction it took and the reasons why?  It's always a great idea to write down this information for your grandchildren so they will have a sense of knowing you when you were young.  They can giggle and laugh because the times and activities will be so different.  This was so special and meant so much to you that it will also mean a lot to them.  Just by telling the story you might remember something you had forgotten.
     The world is full of hardships and chaos and the Love of a person might be the only thing we have left to get us through those hard times!  Their support system is so vital to our growth as a person.
    True Love is something special that we need to cherish because it doesn't happen to everyone.  Some say it only happens to those that consider themselves lucky or blessed but maybe it's the commitment and hard work that causes success in the marriage!  The language between one heart to another heart is magic, pure magic!  Love speaks to your heart even before a word is ever spoken!  Remember!
                      The Commoner