Scott Sonnon writes a love letter over 20 years in the making.
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You walked by me, and I stopped breathing. Only when I caught my breath, did I realize that I was about to change everything in my life for the better, find you, and never let you go again. I look back on the twenty years since we had met, and it stretches across a timeline of breathless moments caught by you.
We’ve had difficulties as all couples do, but for our ongoing recommitment to one another, each hardship has woven us into a more knit union. Each challenge was like a song sung together to find greater harmony. When we were sad, we have listened to the lyrics, and when we were happy, we have just enjoyed the melody. But it has always been our mutual song we perfect each year. Listen to the symphony we’ve composed, my love.
There are far better things ahead than behind. The father back I look into my life, the more I treasure the hardships I had faced, because each one brought me to where I had been ready to see you. Even when we had met, it had not yet been the time. We had both needed to grow more, before we grew together. When two people care about each other, they will always look for a way to make it work, no matter how hard it is. We’ve worked very hard to respect our individual selves and by coming together as a couple… set them free.
Others remark how wonderful our children have become, but they don’t realize how hard we’ve worked to learn how to dance together, to compose two wholly independent sheets of music into one. The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or heard, but must be felt from the heart. Even others can now feel our strength together, as we have felt it since we had met.
All those years ago, when I finally saw you, I had wanted to sweep you up and run away to start our life together. But there had been no need to rush. When something is meant to be, it will happen at the right time, with the right person, for the best reasons. We were meant to be, and for the most incredible of purpose; which, as we continue to build and grow together, continues to be revealed.
More challenges will certainly and gladly arrive to us in the future, but only to further reveal our purpose…
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Looking at what we have built together, seeing all of the hard work, and the daily maintenance to protect and nurture, the overflowing gush of music comes as no surprise; though it still steals my breath. When I awaken in the morning, and look in the window of our life, it amazes me what we’ve accomplished together, and fills me with wonder and excitement at what will come next. More challenges will certainly and gladly arrive to us in the future, but only to further reveal our purpose, to harmonize our melody and to flood our lives with beauty.
Happy Anniversary, Darling.
Kailash
Photo: Author’s own
For more from Scott Sonnon:
A True Life Story of Love That Changed Everything
Hey, where is your smile??? I do the same thing, half the photos of me have a stone face. That being said, almost 40 years of marriage, I can tell you that you’re on the road to continued happiness.