Two people excited about the same thing

I celebrated  48 years of marriage last week...Cathe Zimmerman and I spoke our vows along the Harpeth River south of Nashville on April 29, 1972.
Rev. Sam Barefield officiated.
Father John Kavanaugh gave the homily.
He reminded us that practicing hospitality  causes people to "entertain angels unaware"....something we've done throughout our time together as couple and family.
Our families and friends witnessed and celebrated together....T.C. and Beth, Terry and Mike...Stevie and Tinker and Debbie and Mary Ellen and Kelley and Kathy and Ellenita and Bill and Janie.
Steichen and Mc Conville and Turg and Marty and Leo and Janet and Adah and Lorraine and Marge and Pat and Tim and Joan and George and Eleanor and Mike and Mickey....
We promised to love each other, be hospitable to even strangers, and to help each other be the best people we could be.
"Morning Has Broken" opened the ceremony  as the clouds cleared away in the early afternoon.
Wonderful memories of that day, and all the days since.....of time together traveling, raising our family and living in Keeler and Nashville and Shoreham and Conway and  Clio, and Flint and East Lansing and Ann Arbor.
Today in reading the meditation of Richard Rohr, I was reminded that 'two people excited about the same thing are the beginning of almost everything new, creative, and risky in our world.' 
We two were excited about the same thing when we spoke our vows together in 1972....
In this difficult  time of lockdown, we're challenged to be excited about the same thing since many of the things we've planned have been upended....
-A trip to Scotland, England and France to celebrate Cathe's 70th birthday
-Roaming the country  this Spring in our new truck camper(St.Louis, Nashville, Allentown)
-An Easter celebration at Peter's house with Michigan kids/grandkids
-Concerts at the Ark
-Breakfast at Juicy Kitchen
-Field trips with the grandkids in East Lansing and Ann Arbor
It's tough to give up these plans and activities large and small, to face the  reality that the global pandemic has imposed.
A reality that is scary....
A reality that seems to change minute by minute....
A reality that is more unknown than known....
The campgrounds are closed, the COVID 19 cases are increasing, the leadership is lacking.

So......new, creative, risky......two people excited about the same thing..

Time, space to think and feel and be .....

STAY TUNED!