I have not written in awhile. Maybe waiting to find my voice, or more probably waiting for the world to once again seem solid. For whatever reason the desire to probe my heart for it's deeper truths always seems to diminish the moment I sit in front of the computer. During the day while engaged in most any activity my mind will wander, and it is to this forum it inevitably is drawn. So, in an act of supreme self control I will attempt to access the easiest (as it has been the most recurrent and immediate) of the list of potential topics.
At some time during the holidays my daughter relayed that she thought the young man who has so totally captured her heart was the answer to a prayer. It made me think......
For her, after seeing so many of her friends getting married, and then approaching her late twenties without any real contenders for her heart, I am sure she was more than a little concerned as to whether there would be a "Knight in shining armor" for her. We talked about it at length, and while none of us have a crystal ball (the late night psychics excluded), I was sure that life would unfold as it should......... but I have to add that I certainly recognized the longing in her heart and wanted as fervently as she did for the longing in her soul to be addressed.
So after years of perhaps not so patiently waiting, someone has come along. I know they love one another. Anyone can see it. It is most obvious. They play well together. He is a good man. His first marriage had problems. Trust was betrayed, and it takes little imagination to suspect his heart suffered real damage. He has a young son from that failed marriage. A most remarkable young boy (and I say that fully aware that where family is concerned I am somewhat biased) who is smart, cute, loving, and all boy. I watch my future son-in-law with my soon to be grandson and see reflections of my father. I can give no higher compliment.
Yep, my daughter loves them both, and I love what they all bring to each other. If I were allowed to have gone shopping for what I would think the man who would share her life should be, I think I would choose what God has provided. He is exactly what I would have put in the cart. If his heart suffered the hurt I am sure it endured, then I suspect he too was hoping that eventually he might find a soul mate that he could believe in. Being the people they are, I am sure they expressed their collective desires to the almighty.
So, at least three of us at some time expressed a hopeful prayer that there be someone they could share love with. That two singular souls might come together to make something greater.
That the life I helped create should know great joy and purpose, that was my wish. That my daughter should know fullness of life was and always has been my most fervent prayer. I am quite sure it will be one of the prayers in my heart when God calls me home.
Three lives, three prayers, and I suspect all three would suggest that the desires of their respective hearts have been made real. Oh, the fact that prayers have been answered is obvious..... the question remains, whose?
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