ONE HAND, ONE HEART

A friend from college sang at our wedding. Rather than some of the more traditional wedding tunes, he suggested a song from West Side Story. Where Tony and Maria are in the dress shop.

"Make of our hearts one heart/ make of our hands one hand/ make of our lives one life/ day after day..." well, you get the idea. I liked the idea though I remember it caused our piano accompanist some difficulty. And I still like the song and lyrics.

To me, that's what love is all about. Even if you're just "in like" as a high school girlfriend of our son's used to say. That is, she wasn't sure she loved him, but she liked him an awful lot. But being as a couple, being referred to in the plural form, yet with a single mindedness. Yet a one mindedness, where your thoughts of her are placed above your thoughts of you. And that, my friends as John McCain might say, takes years. At least for me. It was easy for me to think of her and want to please her, but more so on a give-and-take level. Until a more mature Christian attitude finally took over. May it never leave.

So if you need to put a little spice in the old Valentine's Day, just YouTube it. You won't be sorry you did.