There is nothing like a personal event or a tragedy in a family member’s life to get you to stop and reconsider your priorities. It’s at that moment that you see what you need to do and the actions you need to take.

One such moment for me was when I took my dad on an Honor Flight to Washington DC with other WWII veterans. At the age of 93, it was very apparent that ‘Pop’ wasn’t going to be with me forever. It was then I decided to publish his WWII diary & Letters online. I was very fortunate that even though I waited so long to do this ‘Pop’ was able to re-live his experiences through the website daily. My favorite line of his was “I can’t wait to get home from coffee each morning to see if I’m still alive”

I’ve seen this same phenomenon happen in the lives of others. A car accident forces someone into a wheelchair; The death of a parent changes the dynamics within a family; the illness of a child forces parents to focus on one instead of the many; dementia strikes the family and life seems to be put on hold.

For Suzanne and I, this might just be that event. We have been working and saving all our lives to take trips & be able to afford little luxuries; waiting to retire to do things with our children & grandchildren; putting things off till tomorrow expecting some point that would be a better time.

The bigger realization is that those plans we made don’t mean as much as the actuality that we are still together. Whether we can travel or not is insignificant to the need to continue as a unit, a whole, an undivided couple. For us, what we do from this point forward is just not as important as the fact that we will do it together.

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:14