Marriage Moats-Long Shot

Published: Mon, 11/15/10

Marriage Moats

Caring for Marriage

It's a long shot, but I think he will catch it.

Why is it that we try for things out of reach? I guess because we have used up all the interesting things in a 3 foot radius.

People have been stretching for incredible goals ever since there were gorges and pinnacles to be explored.

Perhaps we have a thirst for the impossible. I myself wear a bracelet engraved with the quote, "With God, all things are possible." I suppose the ordinary is not as riveting. It is hard to imagine a headline about things that happen routinely.

"Woman Makes Lunch for Her Entire Family."

"Children Seen Playing Video Games."

I suppose marriage is a long shot for any of us. What were we thinking when we promised to love and honor a moving target? It is not as if John is precisely the same conglomerate that he was when I said, "Yes!"

Let me assure you that I have not the slightest ability when it comes to physical prowess. So analogies that depend on kinesthetic skill are purely hypothetical. But I doubt that this young man would feel the same rush if he walked over to the inert ball sitting on the edge of the pool and picked it up, as he will get when his fist tightens around the girth of this flying football.

Loving John in those first dreamy weeks of marriage was wonderful in its own way. His love was mine for the taking. I wouldn't have missed it.

But there is another feeling, not easily described but much worth the effort to seize. It comes from both of us flinging through life, feet off the ground, grabbing hands mid air.

It's a long shot, but I think we caught each other.

Photo by Andy Sullivan