On This Day...

... {blank} years ago, my lovely wife was born. Sometimes, when I think about it, it seems amazing that, given all the twists and turns, events and choices spread out over all those years,* we happened to find one another and fall in love. Was it fate, or chance? Or maybe God's will (those mysterious ways and all)?

All I do know, really, is that it feels deep in my heart like it is meant to be. She truly is my better half, my soulmate. She seems so much a part of me that I can no longer imagine my life without her. And today I celebrate that joyous moment that brought her into this world:

Just a look in your eyes again
Just to lay in your arms
Just to be the first one always there for you
Just to live in your laughter
Just to sing in your heart
Just to be everyone of your dreams come true

Just to sit by your window
Just to touch in the night
Just to offer a prayer each day for you
Just to long for your kisses
Just to dream of your sighs
Just to know that I’d give my life for you

For you for the rest of my life
For you all the best of my life
For you alone, only for you

Just to wake up each morning
Just to you by my side
Just to know that you’re never really far away
Just a reason for living
Just to say I adore
Just to know that you’re here in my heart to stay

For you for the rest of my life
For you all the best of my life
For you alone, only for you

Just the words of a love song
Just the beat of my heart
Just the pledge of my life, my love, for you

I wish I could claim those words as my own but I cannot. Though I truly share the sentiment, they are actually the lyrics to the song I chose for the first dance at our wedding, "For You" by John Denver.

To my partner and wife, happy birthday! I am forever yours.

*Well, not that it's been that many years....