'til death do us part
My all-time favourite part in a wedding is listening and seeing love stories unfold because it gives me some sort of happiness and reassurance that there is still love in this world.
There is a beautiful story that I just feel like sharing. There was a couple who lived on the top of this mountain to isolate themselves from the city. Because his wife works in the village, the husband spent years and years making a staircase so that his wife could go to work everyday safely. As they grew old, the staircase did too, he would spend everyday repairing so that his love one won't get herself hurt. They lived there until he passed away. This historical site and love story has transformed into a testament of what it means to live 'til death do us part.'
Wedding vows are words but to put them into actions is difficult. One day after lunch, I was waiting to cross the traffic light when I saw an old couple walking on the other side of the street. The man was frail and the women was walking really slowly but he held her hands and were strolling down the side walk. They walked gradually but at the same pace. My minds instantly captured this simple yet beautiful picture.
For a couple to live together until their final breath is hard. It requires patience, listening, respect and most importantly...love. To be able to accompany each other until their last steps in life is the true example of LOVE!
Some lives may be short or long but at least there was a chance to have a best friend that will walk with you in the greatest stages of life...
~ch
"Love never fails." 1 Corinthians 13:8
My quote from one of my favourite television series:
"When young, beautiful and healthy, so certainly love. However, when the other gradually ages, old and defeated, has more and more illnesses, and even watching the other die of old age...so, no longer love then? Since in the future, we will not abandon each other...now should be the same. If just because the other has an illness and not love, then it's not true love...No one know one's life span. Even we, as doctors cannot guarantee that we'll live to a hundred. Thus there is no guarantee of growing old together in marriage vows, but must guarantee that, whether in sickness or in health, we must be together." ~K.M.
There is a beautiful story that I just feel like sharing. There was a couple who lived on the top of this mountain to isolate themselves from the city. Because his wife works in the village, the husband spent years and years making a staircase so that his wife could go to work everyday safely. As they grew old, the staircase did too, he would spend everyday repairing so that his love one won't get herself hurt. They lived there until he passed away. This historical site and love story has transformed into a testament of what it means to live 'til death do us part.'
Wedding vows are words but to put them into actions is difficult. One day after lunch, I was waiting to cross the traffic light when I saw an old couple walking on the other side of the street. The man was frail and the women was walking really slowly but he held her hands and were strolling down the side walk. They walked gradually but at the same pace. My minds instantly captured this simple yet beautiful picture.
For a couple to live together until their final breath is hard. It requires patience, listening, respect and most importantly...love. To be able to accompany each other until their last steps in life is the true example of LOVE!
Some lives may be short or long but at least there was a chance to have a best friend that will walk with you in the greatest stages of life...
~ch
"Love never fails." 1 Corinthians 13:8
My quote from one of my favourite television series:
"When young, beautiful and healthy, so certainly love. However, when the other gradually ages, old and defeated, has more and more illnesses, and even watching the other die of old age...so, no longer love then? Since in the future, we will not abandon each other...now should be the same. If just because the other has an illness and not love, then it's not true love...No one know one's life span. Even we, as doctors cannot guarantee that we'll live to a hundred. Thus there is no guarantee of growing old together in marriage vows, but must guarantee that, whether in sickness or in health, we must be together." ~K.M.
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