On April 22nd, 2022 I sat in a coffee shop muddling through a maelstrom of thoughts.
“What is this that we have done?” I kept wondering.
Six months later my Lady and I gave our lives into the other’s hands, with the vow to have and hold, love and cherish one another as husband and wife regardless of what may come until Death calls us to God.
Less than ten months later I was holding our first child, looking back on every step we had taken together up to this moment, We have a little person to care for and to keep safe for eternity.
And I am most certain now that every mother receives a martyr’s crown at the beginning of her New Life.
There was a good space of silence in my writing. Engagement, being newly married, running about to many things relating to Baby before she was born – that all took time somehow. That all is a story so profound that I would not write it even if God had given me the author’s hand and mind.
It all has been, this most wonderful adventure, a gift that I wish to all who dare to cast away their lives.
I am back again – there is some time that may be given to careless writing.
Perhaps with the many New and Real things that are happening every day I will have something of value to say – but I make no promises.
If you would live a joyous life, give yourself away.