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ícone Everlasting love

In one of his poems, Vinicius de Moraes wrote: May love be eternal while it lasts…

The verse has given opportunity to those who say they love, to quickly dissolve ties that seemed they would exceed the times.

It has becomecommon to say that love passes. And we question ourselves: Is it really?

Will the love be so ephemeral, brief?

The story of Mary and Tom Fish show that true love holds on anything.

They got married on a day of May in 1994 and, in the first months, everything was a bed of roses. Together they painted, decorated and furnished the house.

Mary made the curtains, Tom planted the roses. He was an athletic man and when younger, loved to climb mountains.

Mary, unworried and happy, hoped that the challenge which they would face together would come in the form of children and changes of life.

But, in February of the following year, Tom started to not feel well. He was at work, tried to get a soda from the fridge, but could not manage to bring his hand to the door.

Medical examinations showed two very aggressive brain tumors.  The doctor announced the severity, set up the surgery for the beginning of the following week and described, with a cold voice, the procedures.

The couple looked at each other. Tom began to say: I’m sorry, I’m sorry. As if he wanted to show how sorry he felt for causing her so much concern.

He went through surgeries, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, alternating good moments with some very difficult ones, when he had difficulties in pronouncing certain words and Mary needed to figure out what he wanted to say.

They turned themselves to God, in prayer. One day, Mary suggested they recite aloud the wedding vows that they had written.

While she was making an effort to remember what she had written, Tom recited: I, Tom, take you, Mary Catherine, treasure of my heart and my beloved partner, to be my wife, lover and friend, to travel along life with me, until the end of the road.

I will love you, comfort you and honor you, in joy as well as in sorrow, all of my days.

One day, making a big mess to feed, he asked: Love, how do you feel facing the possibility of me becoming disabled?

With absolute sincerity, she said: My love, you are my life. Everything I want is for you to continue with me. I can deal any problem.

They celebrated one year anniversary, eating the top part of their wedding cake, which they had saved, in the freezer, especially for the occasion.

At first, she wished he became healthy again; after, she asked that he lived even with the disabilities; and then, it was necessary to accept the fact that he would die.

Finally, Mary realized that all she could do was to help him spiritually.

When Tom left, she wrote: I know love holds on pain and misfortune. If we were able to choose one feeling that lasted above all the others, there would be better choice?

Let us think about it: love is the greatest of feelings. Love never ends.

 

Spiritist Moment Team, based on the article Amor interminável,
by Mary Catherine Fish, from the magazine Seleções Reader’s Digest,
special anniversary edition [70 years].
June 17.2013.

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