To Those Who Say It's Good.

These are the ones I lean into.  They are the stories I long to hear, the messages I take notes from, the carols I memorize to repeat, the friendships I hug into.  They are the words of people I hold dear, the words of wisdom, of smiles, of goodness.  The words of years won, of hands still held, of enjoyment continually shared.

People say marriage is hard.

I know that.  I know that I know that I am naive.  But that's okay.  Let me be that way.

Let me hope for tomorrow.

Let me hope for good.

I watched my parents.  I watched them laugh and share and boat and travel and errand and eat.  I watched them enjoy.  I watched them: I watched hope; I watched good.

Some warn, some paint furrowed pictures.  But I crave and listen in to those who say it's good.

In this season of planning, in this particular time of preparation, what I am most thankful for, is those who say it's good.

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Thank you Bekah and Patricia and Kate and Amy and Rachel and Heidi and Aunts and Sisters and WLT...  all those, who say it's good.