Yesterday Pat and I watched a morning television news magazine as a young family was interviewed. Their story has been made into a film being released in time for Valentines Day. “The Vow” is the true story of a very young couple recovering from an accident that put the wife, Paige, in a coma. She awoke with severe memory loss and couldn’t remember any of her life with her husband. Leo had to fight to win Paige’s heart all over again.
Paige and Leo had been married for five years. While traveling by car on a snowy night, the couple were hit by a truck. Paige, who wasn't wearing her seat belt, was seriously injured. Awakening from her coma, Paige did not remember Leo or the past five years of her life, believed she to be a law student, still on good terms with her parents, and engaged to marry her ex-fiancee. Despite this, Leo made heroic efforts to help Paige regain her memory. However, she could not remember and struggled to get back into her old routines and even moved back into her parents’ home.
Leo’s love for Paige continued throughout the struggle. The details of how they are keeping the vows made years ago make the rest of the story. The extreme tests of love experienced by Paige and Leo are unusual. But, all love is tested.
Sunday Pat and I began our forty-sixth revolution around the sun together. Pat nor my memories have been snatched away by a massive head trauma. Our memories are just hazy now and then! The real demands of life, including illness, moving, changes in how we express our vocation, financial needs – everything common to people everywhere, require that vows are remembered and renewed.
The most impressive line in the interview is, “Love is doing the right thing, keeping one’s vows.” Both husband and wife clearly “get it!” Paige and Leo mentioned their faith repeatedly. Solomon counseled, “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” (Proverbs 3:3)
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
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