My Source of Peace

Haven't touched a computer in two days due to an unexpected and fun (sarcastic fun) illness that's snuck up on me over the last couple weeks. Not only am I attempting to fight off pneumonia, but also heal a torn diaphragm which is essentially the muscle underneath your lungs. How did this muscle tear you might ask? Well from coughing so much and so violently, and yes it is definitely as "fun" as it sounds. However, I wanted to jump on tonight for one reason only, and that is to express gratitude.

I felt it paramount that I write tonight quickly, and publicly thank my wife, Megan, for all she does. The silver lining to being sick is to have the quality care and devotion of a loving wife, and boy has my lining been phenomenal. Not only am I talking about just over the last couple of days while I've been whimping it up acting like I'm hurt, but more like the last 5 plus years we've been able to call each other husband and wife. She is truly my lioness, and I am nothing without her.

The last couple of posts have focused on The Last Samurai, and some truths that it teaches us. In addition to these truths already discussed, another applies here as well. Nathan Algren learns and truly finds himself while amongst the Samurai in the mountains of Japan. Once he learns that they are set to be destroyed he goes into battle side-by-side with them. Question is, where does he go afterwards? Directly back to that sanctuary in the mountains that brought him the true peace he had long sought in all the wrong places. Megan is that place of peace for me.

Often times we jokingly talk about how it isn't truly possible for me to actually "want" to come home some nights. Tough day at work, the kids are all wired up and everything appears on the outside as utter chaos, but I always remind her that there isn't anywhere else I'd rather be. And I say that with full honesty of heart. Why? Because she is my sanctuary, my source of strength, my source of peace, my source of inspiration and most importantly she is what makes me feel alive!

Just as Nathan went out to fight only to return quickly to the place he loved most, that is my daily strategy to fight the daily fight as quickly as possible to return to the one that truly makes me happy; my one and true love.

Thank you for being you Megan, and thank you for allowing me to be apart of your life. I am the luckiest guy in the world to call you mine, and I pray that I will earn that right each and every day of my life both in this and the next. Love you long-long time to my one and only Lioness!

P.S. Benjamin, you did request a picture, but I know she wouldn't be too appreciative to me if I posted one of her at this time. Hopefully sometime soon. :)