As usual, Wendell Berry says it best. Borrowed thoughts on our fourth anniversary:
"Walter Cotman always spoke of Mary as Elton's "better half." In spite of his sulks and silences, she would not go so far as "better." That she was his half, she had no doubt at all. He needed her. At times she knew with a joyous ache that she completed him, just as she knew with that same joy that she needed him and he completed her. How beautiful a thing it was, she thought, to be a half, to be completed by such another half! When had there ever been such a yearning of halves toward each other, such a longing, even in quarrels, to be whole? And sometimes they would be whole. Their wholeness came upon them as a rush of light, around them and within them, so that she felt they must be shining in the dark."
Wendell Berry,
A Jonquil for Mary Penn
Four years down, forever to go! WAHOO!
I still remember the first time I saw this in 2006. I found it very insightful and profound then, one of my favorite BYU devotionals ever, and I've revisited it several times since. We watched it tonight for family night. I highly recommend it. Tell me what you think!
