This is L.O.V.E.

This is L.O.V.E.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine!


...Sometimes I am completely amazed at the kindness of strangers..Today at the grocery store I noticed an worker whom I've seen many times..but this time was different, he was looking at me with different eyes then he had in the past, a little uncomfortable at first, I realized he was approaching me..He so politely said "I don't mean to stare but I've seen you in here before, I can't help but notice that beautiful tattoo on your chest, what does it mean?" I explained that it was a heart that had be hurt healed by the love of my husband and children...His eyes started to well with tears and for some reason felt compelled to tell me everything about him...he first showed me his one and only tattoo...looking at it I could tell he had it for a very long time, he proceeded to tell me that in it's prime it was a beautiful Cobra tattoo...he was a 76 yr. old retired Marine..I thanked him for his service and he began telling me about his family....13 children...10 girls, 3 boys...out of those children 6 were 3 sets of twins...he beamed with pride as he spoke of them...he told me about his Hebrew heritage and even spoke to me in Hebrew, I don't know what he was saying but I found comfort in it..then his attention turned to his wife..He spoke so Highly of her then he said he hopes that at this point in his life he hopes when it's time to leave this world neither one goes without the other, strangely I understood exactly what he was saying. After about 15 min. he asked me my name..then he said "It's cold out here so I'll let you got, but your a nice lady and I think it's so wonderful to see someone love their children and husband so much", he said that even with all the years between us..him being 76, I'm 39 he knows love when he see's it..then spoke to me in Hebrew again...I asked him what he said..it was simple but meant so much "I AM MY BELOVED'S AND MY BELOVED IS MINE" as he told me nothing else matters but the love of your husband and the love of your children, I stared to realize a simple conversation with a total stranger means more to me on this day that I could have ever imagined...His name is Aaron...he thanked me for taking time out of my day to speak with him...there's no way he could've known that his time was my pleasure...and how much I needed his kindness today...as I walked back to me car he shouted "Shiloh Missy"..he had remembered my name, Thank You to a simple grocery cart employee who has touched me so profoundly just by his human nature!!

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