Many people all over the world know this - that is to say, the “this” they know is a bright light that is constantly flooding people’s hearts with exquisite, sharp, and crisp beautiful colors. In the blessing of this light, these people are allowed to experience a life lived in love that’s so real and full of truth. For these people, love never ceases to give itself away and the "this" is transparently woven into their life lived. Since I met my wife, Angela Price, the woman who’s the light of my life, “this” is where I continually find myself.
In my not too distant past, I never knew love. I wrongly felt I wasn’t real. That way of feeling about myself led me to believe people saw both past me and through me - the same way I might look past and through a wisp of smoke. From my inside out, I spent most of my life trying to find the bad in something so beautiful. BUT for a life to be lived, time and space will happen and this will not allow life to be stagnant. This science isn’t without its own beauty, because as I moved through time and space, I grew and changed. Of course, I worked hard on myself, and as I worked I found out I’m a substantial man because I contain a bright light whose color and beauty can’t be contained. Will you allow me to back up for a brief moment? As time and space moved, just when I needed them, the soaring love, light, color, and beauty from several women’s hearts came along beside me and with their help, I gave up gravity for grace. Today I work hard to find all the light I have in my heart, with all this light, I see all the colors I possess, and I accept that Mr. Tod Thomas Price is a beautiful man. This is the man Mrs. Angela Price meet and fell in love with and by the way, she’s the woman of my dreams and the very woman I married and look forward to spending the rest of my life with. Before Angela, what I thought love might be, well it is so much more than my abundant imagination could imagine in a billion lifetimes.
I mean, I never knew love could be so practical. I hate doing the dishes, washing the clothes, mowing the lawn, and making the bed up. Somehow love removes the drudgery of doing ALL those things. Love says the neighbor dog needs looking after, look after her. Love says your adult kid’s car needs work, pay for it. Love asks, “Do people in the Tri-Sate need food”, then let’s do our little part to feed them. Yeah, my rhetoric isn’t zinging here, at least not out loud. So may I ask you to read between the lines and infer what is implied. In these meager words, you’ll find the light blinding you even while its beautiful colors implore you to stay awhile so you can contemplate something that’s lofty, noble, and so very special.
Then love asks you to believe and trust and it requires of you is to put this belief and trust in the hands of another person… another person who’s not yourself! Love asks you to talk, to communicate with 100% integrity and honesty, and it asks you to do this 100% of the time. It’s in communication that love shows complete fairness as love also asks you to wholly listen. Here is where love can teach a man - Tod w/ one d - that active listening is sometimes more an act of the heart, but can both be an act of the mind as well as one’s heart. Love mostly says, “Yes”, but sometimes love must say “No”. Love craves physical closeness, still, love holds those we love deep in our hearts no matter how far away she may be. Love loves making love and always strives to learn more and to love better. Love tenderly hugs, holds, and caresses. Love is a healing balm that desires nothing less than to remove all pain. Love feels exasperation but allows for its release. Love makes teamwork happen. Love forgets pain - both physical and emotional.
I never imagined love this way - nope, not, nadda. My wife, the most beautifullest and most wonderfullest Mrs. Angela Price has given all this love to me...yes that’s right, she’s given it to me, no one else, she’s given it to me and me alone. Sorry for that little tangent there. I’m overjoyed how this love I now hold can’t be held down. This love I hold has wings and together we share heart smiles because it’s together that we soar. In our unity, as we soar our views allow for light, color, beauty, and happiness to coalesce in our heart and we can’t help but to smile. Yeah, as we fly, we look down and see the bright green trees growing on the mountains below. We feel the wind beneath our wings while we look to see crystal clear azure skies. As we fly, we enjoy a smile of complete happiness by experiencing the warmth of a radiant sun gently caressing our outstretched wings. For as long as we like, we take our flight as high and as far as we want while we look with them at all the lighted, colorful, beautiful sights!
Wisp of smoke, who’s that?
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