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I don’t know who Milly is, she’s just a woman I heard about a couple of times on the radio, an elderly widow who has just gotten remarried. Milly has been making me smile all week and she doesn’t even know it. She’s been a great encourager. There are many people in the world like that, heroes, encouragers that don’t even know what a bright spot they are for the rest of us.
So Milly had a casual acquaintance with a guy who’s getting up there in age and really just couldn’t live alone anymore. Milly decided the best thing to do would be to move in and take care of him, but being a Christian woman of a certain generation, you can’t just go and live with a man, so she married him.
Milly said she wanted her grandkids to know she still has some standards.
I’ve been enchanted with this love story all week because it really captures the sacrificial nature of love and the ministry that is marriage. These two have made a statement that has touched a lot of lives way beyond their own social circle. There’s no status, youth, beauty, wealth, potential children, or even a long future together. It’s just pure love for one another, but also for their grand kids, their community, the values they embrace, and the God they serve. It’s a big love, one of abundance that has now rippled out into the world like those proverbial pebbles in a pond.
It’s a rather pragmatic love story, but also a romantic one that reminds me of the quote, “do I love you because you’re beautiful or are you beautiful because I love you?”
janjoy52 said:
Precious story! Only God could invent that one!
Sweet! Reposting!♡♡♡
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insanitybytes22 said:
Isn’t that sweet? Thanks for passing it along.:-)
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janjoy52 said:
Very! Thank YOU for passing it along!♡♡♡
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ColorStorm said:
Like a magnet I was attracted to Millie. Her face. Her hair. How she smelled. How she laughed. How she walked.
Then there was the boat. Sitting upside-down against a garage, on dry land. Then we hid under that boat, and shared a kiss.
We were 5 years old! Seemed more than puppy love! lol. Wonder what happened to Millie. Oops, wrong story.
Tks for this reminder though msbytes, of character and how things we do impact so many others.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! I love it. Well said, colorstorm, a toast to little millie.:-)
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Lorra B. said:
What an uplifting story today! I really needed that so thanks so much! Rock on with your bad self Millie and God bless you!!! 🙂 🙂
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MJThompson said:
Millie’s story is sweet indeed. Your quote, “do I love you because you’re beautiful or are you beautiful because I love you?” reminded me of scripture’s “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” – 2 Cor. 3:18. What we behold in the ‘glass’ may well be a mere reflection, but when we see Jesus in it our love is more deeply appreciated. We love God because He first loved us, and gave Himself for us – like Millie…
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dawnlizjones said:
“It’s a big love”–great quote! My husband’s grandfather remarried at 85, and his uncle remarried around 90. It’s a good thing, God’s idea of marriage.
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SLIMJIM said:
Beautiful…so beautiful, an illustration of Christian love.
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CC said:
I loved this story, too. I am terrible at copy and paste on my phone so I don’t know if this will work, but here she is. She looked so beautiful.
https://www.google.com/amp/people.com
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CC said:
https://www.google.com/amp/people.com/human-interest/86-year-old-bride-has-incredible-love-story/amp/
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Phil Fincel said:
Your site is so fantastic. I’m going to come back here again.
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