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last week marked the 1/2 year point for my grant and me. we have been married for 6 months already. time flies. i just read this part in one of my most favorite books and was amazed to see how much i can relate to it now that i am married. i feel exactly the way this character does."As my husband sleeps, I listen to his steady breathing. I am astonished over and over again that he is lying beside me.
I hadn't known what to expect, after all, when it came to sharing a life with someone.
Would I feel hemmed in? Invaded?
But I had never felt hemmed in or invaded, not once. I felt, instead, a kind of awe that made me lie very still, scarcely breathing.
How this could have happened, this sharing of a life? I couldn't imagine.
During the day I can imagine it, and ponder over the slow and gradual and wonderful process that had brought us to this place.
But at night, it seemed a miracle, defying reason.
Oddly, I can feel myself becoming something more, as one might discover new rooms in a house she had lived in all her life.
When I lay there and simply let the wonder of it sink in, I am suffused with a kind of joy I'd never known before."
thank you for that joy, Grant. i love you madly.
quote from These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon
6 comments:
That was so beautiful Summer. I think that first year is somewhat magical.
I am going to calligraphy that for my parents who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and are still incredibly in love. It is so sweet to witness.
Beautiful words.
Beautiful words---may we all still feel that way in 6 years and in 60 :)
Lovely words...congrats on feeling so wonderful!
Oh, being married is so much fun. Congrats.
oh that is too sweet! I love being married!