Sometimes you just see love in the faces and actions of other married couples. Yesterday was such a day for me.
Our choir went to sing for the elderly residents in a local nursing home. I looked out a saw one couple. She was nestled close to him and they were holding hands as they listened to us sing.
As we sang The Anniversary Waltz she started to quietly sing along, all the time looking at her husband. You got the feeling it didn’t matter a bit that she was old and wrinkled and that he was old and wrinkled. Love shone out of those eyes. I didn’t ask, but judging from their appearance the couple was probably in their eighties, maybe even older I don’t know. But it was obvious the bond of love was still there.
When we sang As Time Goes By again she turned toward him. Her hand ran up and down his arm and I felt like I wanted to cry, from the beauty of watching two people who’d shared a lifetime of love.
In that same nursing home lives anther couple, both in their mid to late nineties. Recently this couple, born in The Netherlands, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. They were married on October 4, 1939. The photo in the newspaper shows them side by side enjoying a glass of red in together.
In this day and age when so many marriages are breaking up, it’s lovely to see and hear of those that survive, where love lasts and people really do grow old together, and where people are together till death parts them.
Our choir, which includes several husbands and wives, although because of work commitments only one married couple on the day, enjoyed being able to share music with these elderly people. But we got back as much as we gave, because we saw at least one example of long lasting love that morning
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