All Because Two People Fell In Love

Yesterday would have been the 61st wedding anniversary of our grandparents. It has been just over a year since my grandpa passed away, he passes just short of their 60th wedding anniversary.

Today is a day that I wish I was better with words, I am no writer but this Anniversary every year deserves to be acknowledged.

When I look at and think about my family, all that I have from them, all that I have learned and all I hope to carry into Barry and I's new family and life it always comes back to one point, to two incredible people that simply fell in love and lived a life for each other. They loved each other with a passion and commitment that lasted almost 60 years on this earth but will carry on for an eternity.

 It is all because two people fell in love.

Sixty-one years ago Bill Martin and Willa Mae made a commitment to each other to build a life and family deeply rooted in love and most of all Faith. That love and commitment would produce nine children, seven boys and two beautiful girls. Those nine children would produce 30 grand-children and those grand-children have only just now reached the point that we are marrying and creating families of our own. We may make it to our grandpa's great mark of 100 sooner than we realize!

So often at a family get together I am in awe that all the people surrounding me, the mass chaos of love that is a huge family came about because two people fell in love.

Then,  I also think of all the lives that have been touched through or by our grandparents and family, it is just un-fathomable what a huge blessing our family is.

I have always believed that everything happens for a reason, and I doubt my grandparents imagined all that their falling in love would produce. I know through them my mother learned commitment and love in a marriage, which my parents carried on and taught to my sisters and I, lessons that we will carry into our marriage and family.

I so often now think of how much I will miss having my grandfather at our wedding, to celebrate and to dance with my grandmother - a family tradition that will be dearly missed at this very first wedding since we've been without him.  Though he will not be there to help celebrate our wedding day, I know all I will have to do is to look around the room at our wedding and know that I am surrounded and embraced with his love even with him gone because I am loved and embraced by the family that his love created.
Love, so simple as it may seem can build something you never imagined, all by loving and making a true and lasting commitment to the one you love.

Love Changes Everything.

What will your love change today?