Friend George,
Your comment reminds me of an old couple that we see every Sunday. Karen and I are Eucharistic Ministers to the Homebound and it is our total privilege to bring our parish's love and the Eucharist to this elderly couple.
They are both 88 years of age and in rapidly failing health.
Both are from Western Montana. They were high school sweethearts, but WWII interrupted the relationship. He went off to war (he was heavily decorated) and she waited in Missoula.
When he came back, he married someone else. Eventually, so did she.
Fast forward a bunch of years when they were unknowingly in the same Adult Foster Home ... and didn't know it. Their sons and daughters reintroduced them. The fell in love all over again and were married six years ago.
Now they are in an Adult Foster Home just a few blocks from our home. They are very much in love and hold hands almost constantly. When Karen and I see their love and devotion to each other, it makes our hearts sing.
And to do our little Catholic liturgy and place the Lamb, the Blessed Sacrament, upon their tongues ..... absolutely priceless.
I'm a writer and I simply have no words.
May God Bountifully Bless ALL of You,
Steve
