Pat and Del

     Though it is painful to contemplate now, in the freshness of grief, it is still a blessing to honor my in-laws long lasting marriage. Especially since, by human standards, it was so unlikely to succeed. God's faithfulness shows brightest against such improbable circumstances. It is a testimony, not just about marriage, or of faithfulness, but of grace.

 Pat and Del

An unlikely beginning—

Pat and Del,

a secret elopement

plus the unmerited favor

of an unstoppable God

made an unbreakable union.

Nothing but death could have parted them--

Pat and Del,

and nothing less than death did,

not even Alzheimer’s.

It changed many things

but not their love.

Side by side—

Pat and Del

sixty six years

man and wife,

until he entered eternity without her,

but hardly alone.

Face to face now--

Christ and Del 

where death cannot part any

whom God chose for His own,

and some, for each other—

Pat and Del.

6/9/20