To Have and To Hold
Tonight my family and I join in discernment, sending our prayers, positive thoughts and vibes to our brother-in-law, Joe, along with my sister, Helen, as he prepares for a life-saing surgery tomorrow. When you think of Helen, you automatically think of Joe. It is almost like their names run together because rarely do you say one name without the other. Helen’n’Joe. Just like that, all in one breath. I 'll bet if you’d ask, they’d say that they knew on the night they met at the Pumpkin Tree it was forever. One of the gifts of youth, I think, is that it exposes you to unbridled possibilities in life and shelters you from the caustic realities at the same time. Like most of us who married super young, Helen and Joe were full of hope and anticipation of their newly emerging life together and were eager to get started not realizing the challenges from which nobody is spared. Today, more than 40 years later, facing possibly their biggest trail, they're still holding