Strange what stirs up a thought and stimulates a memory. This time of year my favorite movie is "it's a wonderful life." Actually that movie can apply to all of us at one time or another as I think about how we all touch each other in various ways. My sister reminded me once of how she felt I altered the path of our lives. I never thought of it as such an important thing till one day she spoke of what it meant and how she felt how it affected her in many ways. I was nine years old and that would have made my sister five years old at the time. Believe it or nor we use to swim in the Allegheny river. My father would have these big blow up inner tubes and tie them to a dock off the shore. This one day I am sure he wasn't far away but far enough that we weren't in sight. The large barges pushing by created waves and as I turned my sister was no where to be found. She had slipped off and had fallen under the water. She was in a state of panic and couldn't swim and all I saw was her little hand reaching out of the water. I held on and locked my hand in hers and pulled her close to me. She said " you saved my life"
I thought about myself through out life. I wasn't literally drowning but at times I felt like I was emotionally under the water with my hand reaching up. It made me think about my life and where I would be had you not been there. I reached up and you took my hand.
It could have been sooner that our paths would meet but the Lord knows the timing and surely he knows our needs. Struggles were many and tears were more than a few but it was all worth it to have my life directed to you. Bringing joy to the day and revealing that blue skies dominate the gray. I wake up in the morning with a song in my heart and knowing that you are never far. I reached for your hand and you reached on back, that my love is a fact.
To feel your love
and hold you here,
to love you so with
each breath I share.
I'll never let you go,
I truly love you so.
Amazing is this love
sent down from above.
You're my nightly dream,
you are my everything.
I reached out to you,
to find you reaching too.
I'll never let you go,
I truly love you so.
Amazing is this love
sent down from above.
My heart I share with you,
that is what lovers do as
I embrace the time that
passes so quickly by.
I'll never let you go,
I truly love you so.
Amazing is this love
sent down from above.
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You gave me a smile,
you taught me to laugh
and life was worth
living.
You held on tight,
I fought for my life
and life was worth
living.
You made me realize,
I was worth loving
and I gave in return
all of my heart.
You believed in me,
made it all real and
directed my dreams.
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