This is pretty much how I look when we part...
... with brown hair and a modesty panel, of course.
But the happiest moment is when he returns home after dark. What joy! It delights him that I am so excited to see him, and the whole reunion ritual is so transcendently beautiful, para-liturgical almost, I can hardly contemplate it without reverence and awe. The privilege and responsibility of being a woman, and his wife, is almost too much goodness to bear.
Reflecting upon this deep joy has made the Fourth Glorious Mystery of the Rosary (The Assumption of Mary into Heaven) so much more real to me. I never really understood it before. But now I know: to be reunited with her love after separation must have been such an indescribable ecstasy! I can feel some small part of our Blessed Mother's bliss each time my husband returns home. The marriage covenant truly is a foretaste of heaven on earth.
Though the inevitable ups and downs of life (and original sin) mean that not every day is heaven, I have the incredible power and privilege as the heart of our home, as a woman, as his wife, to set the entire tone of the evening by those first few moments of our reunion.
He'll be home in just a few hours. I can't wait!
5 comments:
This is lovely! My Beau and I are long distance, and I feel like I spend entirely too much time moping around without him. Your meditation on the Assumption puts it all in a new light.
Thank you, Sarah!
It is easier said than done ;), but it is beautiful when it works as God intends. :)
I get you on that! It's amazing how we can unite things to them! I never understood the whole thing about Mary keeping these things in her heart, after she found Jesus, who was in the temple...I have one particular child who's very different from the others..He has almost a natural sanctity...so many things I just keep in my heart..Now I understand what that meant...
"Paraliturgical"!!! Mercy on us, woman! : )
Our vocations really do lead us to God, Agnes :). It's so beautiful!
Thanks for sharing!
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