Monday, February 20, 2012
Today, my 75-year-old grandpa who has been blind from cataracts for
almost 15 years said to me, “Your grandma is just the most beautiful
thing, isn’t she?” I paused for a second and said, “Yes she is. I bet
you miss seeing that beauty on a daily basis.” “Sweety,” my grandpa
said, “I still see her beauty every day. In fact, I see it more now than
I used to when we were young.”
Today, I walked my daughter down the aisle. Ten years ago I pulled a
14 year old boy out of his mom’s fire-engulfed SUV after a serious
accident. Doctors initially said he would never walk again. My daughter
came with me several times to visit him at the hospital. Then she
started going on her own. Today, seeing him defy the odds and smile
widely, standing on his own two feet at the altar as he placed a ring on
my daughter’s finger.
Today, I walked up to the door of my office (I’m a florist) at 7AM
to find a uniformed Army soldier standing out front waiting. He was on
his way to the airport to go to Afghanistan for a year. He said, “I
usually bring home a bouquet of flowers for my wife every Friday and I
don’t want to let her down when I’m away.” He then placed an order for
52 Friday afternoon deliveries of flowers to his wife’s office and asked
me to schedule one for each week until he returns. I gave him a 50%
discount because it made my day to see something so sweet.
Today, I told my 18 year old grandson that nobody asked me to prom
when I was in high school, so I didn’t attend. He showed up at my house
this evening dressed in a tuxedo and took me as his date to his prom.
Today, when she woke up from an eleven month coma, she kissed me and said, “Thank you for being here, and telling me those beautiful stories, and never giving up on me… And yes, I will marry you.”
Today, I was sitting on a park bench eating a sandwich for lunch when an elderly couple pulled their car up under a nearby oak tree. They rolled down the windows and turned up some jazz music on the radio. Then the man got out of the car, walked around to the passenger side, opened the door for the woman, took her hand and helped her out of her seat, guided her about ten feet away from the car, and they slow danced for the next half hour under the oak tree.
Today, my dad is the best dad I could ask for. He’s a loving husband
to my mom (always making her laugh), he’s been to every one of my
soccer games since I was 5 (I’m 17 now), and he provides for our family
as a construction foreman. This morning when I was searching through my
dad’s toolbox for a pliers, I found a dirty folded up paper at the
bottom. It was an old journal entry in my dad’s handwriting dated
exactly one month before the day I was born. It reads, “I am eighteen
years old, an alcoholic who is failing out of college, a past cutter,
and a child abuse victim with a criminal record of auto theft. And next
month, ‘teen father’ will be added to the list. But I swear I will make
things right for my little girl. I will be the dad I never had.” And I
don’t know how he did it, but he did it.
Today, my 8-year-old son hugged me and said, “You are the best mom
in the whole entire world!” I smiled and sarcastically replied, “How do
you know that? You haven’t met every mom in the whole entire world.” My
son squeezed me tighter and said, “Yes I have. You are my world.”
Today, I have an elderly patient who is suffering from a severe case
of Alzheimer’s. He can rarely remember his own name, and he often
forgets where he is and what he said just a few minutes beforehand. But
by the stretch of some miracle (perhaps the miracle of love), he
remembers who is wife is every morning when she shows up to spend a few
hours with him. He usually greets her by saying, “Hello my beautiful
Kate.”
Today, my 21 year old Labrador can barely stand up, can’t see, can’t
hear, and doesn’t have enough strength to bark. But it doesn’t stop her
from wagging her tail a mile a minute every single time I walk into the
room.
Today is our 10th anniversary, but since my husband and I are both
recently unemployed we agreed not to get each other any gifts. When I
woke up this morning, my husband was already up. I walked downstairs to
find beautiful wild flowers brilliantly arranged all over the house.
There must be 400 flowers total and he didn’t spend a dime.
SOURCE : marcandangel.com
SOURCE : marcandangel.com
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