(originally written in 2009)
I got a call from my brother-in-law, Mike, tonight. I first got a voice message. I saw a call from him and I will admit that my heart dropped and I had this horrible feeling that something had happened to my sister, Barb. She had been having so many health problems and Mike never calls so...
I was so thankful to first hear the message of him telling me that she is at the Mayo Clinic and things are looking up. And thank goodness for health insurance. (See? It does work the way we have it now.) So I called him back and we talked an hour.
He spoke about how when they first married 39 years ago she was his best friend. Then over the years they drifted apart and he admits he was anything but good to her. He has been working on that and now loves her more than ever. He can't get past how wrong he has been throughout his life, though, and wishes he had been smarter and made changes long ago. How much better their lives could have been.
He now knows what matters most.
I think he always knew it, but he got caught up in the "fog" of things. I'm so glad he knows it now. I'm so glad he knows it when he can still do something about it here in this life. He loves my sister. He wants to take care of her.
THAT is what matters most.
I got a call from my brother-in-law, Mike, tonight. I first got a voice message. I saw a call from him and I will admit that my heart dropped and I had this horrible feeling that something had happened to my sister, Barb. She had been having so many health problems and Mike never calls so...
I was so thankful to first hear the message of him telling me that she is at the Mayo Clinic and things are looking up. And thank goodness for health insurance. (See? It does work the way we have it now.) So I called him back and we talked an hour.
He spoke about how when they first married 39 years ago she was his best friend. Then over the years they drifted apart and he admits he was anything but good to her. He has been working on that and now loves her more than ever. He can't get past how wrong he has been throughout his life, though, and wishes he had been smarter and made changes long ago. How much better their lives could have been.
He now knows what matters most.
I think he always knew it, but he got caught up in the "fog" of things. I'm so glad he knows it now. I'm so glad he knows it when he can still do something about it here in this life. He loves my sister. He wants to take care of her.
THAT is what matters most.
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