today i'm talking about love in its simplest form. it's been a while again that i have not blogged. many good and not so good things have happened which i have failed to document in this blog. but yesterday, God sort of nudged me a bit that made me want to write (blog) about it.
my little family and i were at sunday mass which was packed full. the kids and i fit in a pew while the hubby was in the pew in front of us. beside him was a much more little family than ours.
a man, two sons. one son had down syndrome. the other was normal, around 18 years old.
since they were right in front of me, i could see their little gestures and affectionate pats on the arm, loving smiles and the dad's sweet kiss on his son with down syndrome's cheek. they were a picture of a happy, contented family who loved one another dearly. i wondered where their mom might be?
later, hubby told me, since he was sitting beside the normal son that he saw him show his brother his cellphone, took his brother's hand and let him touch with his fingers the touchscreen phone. and it brightened his brother's face.
wow. love.
i took this as an opportunity to make sermon my kids again as to how they should be loving each other. of course, as always, they didn't seem to be listening to me. but i know in my mind that they are keeping these life lessons in their hearts.
“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
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