Wow! We are already in 2021 and January is almost over. Next week my wife and I celebrate 32 years of marriage. Yes 32 years. But I have know her for 38 years. Is 6 years of dating too long. I don’t think so. We needed time to get to know each other and she needed to find her career. Is 32 years of marriage a long time. Well my parents have been married for 68 years and whilst their twilight years aren’t the best, we do become one for better or for worse. Like them I could not think of someone better to go through life with than Sonia.
She grounds me and makes me whole. Keeps me on the straight path and whilst we have had our ups and downs we love each other. That love may have changed over the years but its still love. A lot has happened in that time. We have a daughter that turns 20 next month and is doing an OT course. I believe she enjoys it. We have had friends and family gone before us and we miss them dearly. We have also migrated to Australia and I am now retired.
What does 2021 hold for us is already coming to past. My cousin Melissa has just passed away after her 9 year battle with Cancer. Sonia Aunt too is unwell and her Dad is battling the effects of diabetes in his old age. Corvid is still with us and will be for a long time to come. It is having untold stress and impact on all our lives as we can’t travel to see loved ones and its has impacted our work and everyday life. For someone that is retired that may not be much but I feel I have to be close at hand for my wife and daughter. As January comes to a close tomorrow our RCIA candidates will receive Baptism, confirmation and Communion that they couldn’t have in Mar 2020. We will catch up with friends at Elwood Beach and on Sunday will attend a Minyan for Melissa. Next week too one of our parishioners Joanne Muscat who passed away too on the same day as Melissa from the same Cancer is to be buried. In all not a great start to the year. But we must count our blessings and live on. Love on.
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