True Love

Tonight Vicki and I watched my favorite movie of all time, The Princess Bride. 

It has everything—fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, miracles, humor, grandfather and grandson, uncountable treasured phrases and…most of all, true love. 

After the movie ended, I went to the study and opened the book (that may be better than the movie) to this passage:

If your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches…. I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.

That's the way I have felt about my true love who sleeps softly by my side and fills my dreams with loveliness.