Sometimes it’s so easy to get caught up in materialistic things, well, ’stuff’, really…’stuff’ that we will never be able to hold on to for long or take with us after we are gone.  This couple can not afford the ’stuff’ that the rest of us seem obsessed over some days.  This couple must pay for their medications, food on their table, clothing on their back (which they are certainly not buying at the trendy stores), and other bare necessities of life.  What they can hold on to is each other.  They expressed a love toward the other that was rare, it was unique.  They did not find joy in what the ’stuff’ they had and were not sorrowed by the ’stuff’ they did not have.  This couple found joy in one another and the mutual love they shared and their sorrow came from the fact that they were both ill and would soon have to be separated due to a number of needs factors.

Without getting into too much further detail for privacy reasons, I left their home with tears in my eyes, I called my husband, told him I loved him, and realized that my relationship with others and my personal choice to have a relationship with God was all that mattered.  It’s not the stuff that makes life meaningful…there is SO much more to life than that and for that alone, I am thankful!

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