UNTIL DEATH WE PART

Milton, here for Kristy:

I have reflected on my vows to Kristy that we made on our wedding day. Our wedding ceremony was beautiful and filled with extra love that Kristy added in a special poem that she wrote and pre-recorded and played in the service. 

We pledged to 

honor and cherish

in sickness and health

for better for worse

till death we do part.

There were other promises made in that ceremony and we kept every one of them. We loved and we cherished and enjoyed almost 37 wonderful years of marriage. I miss that gal and will always love her. There will never be another Kristy. There was just one. She was mine.

Marriage vows made before God and man are sacred. If the vows are recorded in court, they are legal and have legal consequences. But vows made before God, are hallowed. They are holy. They have promise of blessing and severe consequences when foolishly broken. 

We made vows to each other and lived them out in love and honor. Our marriage was a model in many ways that most people only have dreams of sharing. We lived. We loved. We laughed. We had an everlasting love.

But my vows to her are completed. I kept them as we pledged until death we part. I didn't want her to die. I couldn't bear her being sick. The thoughts of her dying were unbearable. I miss her so very much. 

But, our vows have been fulfilled.

I cannot fathom what I am writing. Thirty-seven years passed too quickly. We were to have many, many more years. But death took her. She is in heaven. She is well. She is waiting for all of us to complete our journeys. 

What comes after the death of one's beloved? I don't have all those answers. There are too many questions and not enough wisdom to figure it all out just yet. But, I do know this, we loved and cherished and fulfilled our vows to live for better for worse, in sickness and in health, till death we do part.

Death parted us. The vows are completed.