Emily: the girl who waited for Mr. Right.
She is the 11th
of 12 children. Her father Paul is a physician
whose Jewish father was also a
physician and whose Irish mother was an RN.
Emily’s mother, Barbara, likewise was an RN. So Emily became a physician
,too, but specializing in pediatric medicine.
Emily is
beautiful,charming,intelligent and spiritual,a graduate of Holy Cross College
and the Medical college of the
University of Rochester. She was raised in a family of incredibly strong
Catholic values,with powerful drives for high achievement, and in a climate
of authentic love which was openly
demonstrated and clearly unconditional.
She has a smile that can
send sky rockets a mile high. Her
prospective father-in-law,another physician, told me at the wedding ( at which I had the great joy to officiate)
thateven if he had a “ bad “ day, he would be uplifted
if his intern, Emily, was
coming.
Steve, the lucky groom and
Mr. Right, is a devout and practicing
Lutheran very much aware of the Love of Christ and the work of the Holy
Spirit. He told me that they had agreed
that there would never be a day
when they would not pray together.. He is intelligent and sensitive. He “ choked up” at the wedding Mass as he pronounced his touching vows to be
faithful and loving to her all the days of her life.
Many perceptive and healthy
young men had been attracted to Emily
and all had been found wanting. One wonders
why ! But then one can look at the
lofty and beautiful standards her mother, Barbara, and her father,Paul
had instilled in her. They,themselves, are a most eloquent example of what real
love and Faith mean. They have
shown Emily and anyone who knows them what real marital love ought to be --- and can be--- if only one can “SEE”
what is really there. If only young lovers could see what these ones have seen.
Well, Emily saw “IT.
She knew somehow that she must wait and trust in the Holy Spirit of God. She KNEW He would never let her down
!!!!
She believed:
a) that all she
had to do was trust the Lord
b) and to trust the beauty and reality passed on to her
by remarkable parents.
WHAT A LESSON !
Emily waited for Mr. Right
and he came along in God’s good time. They now have three children and are having a “ ball” in life.
God speed you, Emily and
Steve. You’ve got it made.
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