Pot to Pi** In

This past weekend, My husband and I attended the wedding of our daughter Danielle's Kindergarten best friend.  It was a beautiful wedding, and I couldn't help tearing up as I watched this girl I have known since she was 5 years old marry her college sweetheart (who by the way was also my daughters 9th grade crush). 

I talked to many people in the course of the evening, the wedding had over 300 guests and it was like a Newton reunion of sorts.  Two of the conversations I had stayed with me.

One of the conversations I had was with one of  Danielle's college roommates boyfriends.  We were talking about love and relationships in the church while waiting for the wedding to begin, and he said, that there was no real right or wrong time or age for when people fall in love.  We talked about how, my husband and I were High School sweethearts, and how my son at 23 married his high school girlfriend, and that when the right one came along, then that was the "right" time.  He spoke lovingly about loving his girlfriend, and for them, I hope that their "right" time is now.  They are adorable together.

The other conversation and it pertains to title of my blogpost today, was with a girl that went to elementary school with Danielle.  I taught her religious education when they were in high school.  She got married only last month, and when I saw her at the wedding she said, that she never forgot something I said when I was teaching her religious ed.  I told my students that Donnie and I didn't have a "Pot to Piss In", but what we had was Love!  She said she has never forgotten that, and that she remembered it right up to when she married her husband.  I told her at the wedding, that after 29 years of marriage, Donnie and I still don't have a "Pot........", but we still have an abundance of Love, and as I hugged her, I wished for her and her husband to always have an abundance of Love.

I don't think that money makes a marriage.  Danielle's kindergarten friend and her new husband have started their marriage already owning a home, and they both have great jobs. My son and his wife are living with her parents to save money, so that he can get his Masters in the fall.  My cousins son who got married last year after only knowing his wife for six months are expecting their first child and live in army housing. Couples today are getting married with huge college loans, many couples start their married lives off in various stages of financial circumstances.  None of these financial things are what truly matter.  What truly matters is the Love, and who is to judge which couple is doing it right?  If the Love is real, and the relationship is strong, then the couple is truly blessed in abundance.  There is no dollar sign to the gift of an abundance of Love.

I may still not have that "Pot....." but I am rich beyond measure, and I wish for all newly wed couples, that they too find their abundance of Love so that they too, can be rich beyond measure.