A LOVE STORY: A Short Caption on Forever …

It’s a love story that is rare to find in our modern day society however, it was real, it happened and it lasted 65 years and one month …

She was an 18 year old girl from the city who grew up with fine clothes and parasols. He was a 27 year old soldier who had just returned home from the war after giving 4 years of his life to the service of his country. He was a prairie boy who knew how to drive horses and plough fields, however, many lonely years of barrack life had given him plenty of time to think about his future. Though he was thankful for his upbringing, he realized that farm life was not for him. So he packed up his possessions and headed to the big city to find work and a little adventure. Little did he know that he was also going to find the girl of his dreams!

Amongst a sea of faces, his eyes first fell sight on her. She was a beauty! His heart gave a leap – and then she was gone. He didn’t know if he’d ever see her again! However, as fate would have it, they found each other, 900 miles away from the city from which they’d first met at a small remote college not far from the farm on which he’d been raised! And it was whilst there, that their friendship blossomed and grew into love.

She was the one for him. Of that he had no doubt! He said on more than one occasion, “When I saw her batting those big brown eyes, I was a goner – Hook, Line and Sinker”. Finding the courage to ask for her hand in marriage, he gladly sold his car to buy the ring and they were married on December 22, 1947.

She was a spirited young woman with a fire in her eyes and a determination in her step – A mover and a shaker who knew how to make things happen. He was a quiet young man who was short on words but long on character and integrity – A true gentleman who knew how to treat others right.

Life wasn’t always easy for our “Romeo and Juliet”… but it was good!

 

Sometimes they had to give - Sometimes they got to receive.

In time, they found that the joy comes in the giving.

 

Sometimes the table was bare - Sometimes their pockets were full.

In time, they found that the joy comes from the moments together not the cost of the event.

 

Sometimes they said hurtful things - Sometimes they were hurt by something said.

In time, they found that the joy comes from forgiveness

not in being right.

 

Sometimes they got to achieve their dreams - Sometimes they had to set their dreams aside

for the good of the other.

In time, they found that the only dreams worth having

were the ones they shared together.

 

Sometimes they traveled the world lavishly - Other times they silently fed the hungry.

In time, they found that their greatest rewards came

not from being served but through their service to others.

 

In every twist and turn, they forged through life together

As friends, as confidants, as lovers…

 

For others looking from the outside in, it was too good to imagine. And yet for this “Romeo and Juliet of Modern Times”, it was easy. It was simply how they chose to do life together! Their greatest gift to each other and to all who were witnesses was their unremitted love.

On December 22, 2012, they celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary surrounded by family and friends. And on January 22, 2013, one month to the day, she was gone … A courageous battle with cancer … and the love of his life was gone.


It seems poetic that this soldier who often described his four years in the army as ‘the loneliest time in my life’ would find himself surviving the last four years without her. He is a brave soldier – A brave soldier indeed! Though his eyes still fixate and melt at the sight of her picture on the wall, his heart has chosen to finish life as well as it started. His life - His love – His legacy – A beautiful reminder …

 

Love Never Fails’

 

In remembrance of my father,
R
oss Campbell Wightman

May 30, 1920 - February 6, 2017

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