Resting in God's Plan

Today is the 40th anniversary of the day my hubby Ray gave me my engagement ring. From August to December of 1970 was a whirlwind.  I didn't know life could be so exciting.  We had so much fund discovering that world together. It was a time of learning, sharing and depending on each other.  I cannot believe where the last 40 years have gone.  They've not been boring....EVER!  Life has been challenging but we've made it this far and I am looking forward to the years ahead that God gives us together.  I don't know how I would ever make it life without the Lord and my hubby.  He is my true soul mate.  I knew that the moment I saw him in Santi's Camera Shop in Watsonville CA.  I have never doubted it for one single second in the last 40 years.  That in and of itself is one amazing fact.  We still love being together.  We are each others best friend.  We like traveling together.  We make each other laugh.  We cry together, plan together and dream together.  It doesn't get much better than that.

Now we're on a journey together than we neither dreamed about or planned.  It's one of those things that
happens in life that there is no way, even if we had known, that we could have planned on.  It's a very sorrowful journey and a journey that only God knows why we have to make it.  We might never understand what God's purpose is in the journey.  Is it fair that we have to take this journey. We would definitely say no, but then again, what in life is ever fair? We would never wish this journey on anyone else so I guess, in that sense, it's fair.  God will take us through it, fair or not.  He has a purpose and a reason, we'll probably never know what that is.  It has to be enough that God has a reason and a purpose.

So this Halloween we continue this journey that God has established before our lives began.  We celebrated today with Aaron and Kristin, calls from family and just enjoyed being together.  Tonight we'll enjoy seeing all the kids laughing and running as they enjoy a night of make believe. We'll remember all the halloweens in the past 40 years and the fun we've had; costume parties, taking Aaron trick or treating, laughing with the neighborhood kids as they run and shriek and yell as someone steps out from around the corner.  Halloween was always a favorite holiday growing up.  I don't remember ever having a store bought costume, we made them from what we had.  We must have been Red Skelton's the "Freddy Bum" character half our childhood.  It didn't matter.  We couldn't wait until dad got home from work and dinner was over so we could head out to all the neighbors and pick up those delicious treats; homemade candy apples, popcorn balls, taffy, fudge, caramel.  They never ceased to amaze us.  Our parents encouraged us to be kids and have a great time.  They didn't make the holiday anything other than it was...a great night to spend with friends and get more sugar than any child should have in a year!

What a life we've had and memories we've made.  We wouldn't change one single minute of it.  God has a plan!