As I write this, I am sitting at the desk in my home office. Directly in front and above my computer screen is a photo of my parents. They’ve been deceased for years, but in the picture they are reasonably young, like in their fifties. She is in front, with him behind her shoulder, both with broad, beautiful smiles as they look to their left off camera. This is the way I remember them. Not old and sickly as they were in their final days.
They look so happy. So in love. They modeled for me what it looks like to truly be devoted to another person. I can only hope I have passed that example down to my kids and grandkids.
We can teach our families many things through instruction. But teaching them how to love, really love, that can only come through example.