Safe haven

Have you watched the movie safe haven? The whole movie was really good and I definitely recommend it to anyone wanting a good movie for a date night in (or in our case, after the kids go to be). I'm not going to give away the whole movie but I am going to say a couple things about the end of the movie that had me in tears. There was a man who lost his wife to cancer who had two small children. He met another woman several years later who he fell in love with. The wife (who had died from cancer) had thought ahead and wrote many letters for her kids to read as they hit major milestones (graduation, wedding, etc) in their life that they will now not have their mother at. That alone is just heart touching. But she also wrote a letter "to her". A letter to the lady that she knew her young husband would meet one day.

I mean, what a selfless act! She knew that she was young and that even though her husband would love her forever, she would no longer be here and she hoped that he would meet someone who would make him happy and her kids happy.

It had me crying, wondering if I would ever be able to do something so selfless. Of course if something ever ever happened to me, heaven forbid, I would want for my kids and my husband to be happy one day. But the thought of that being because of another woman really makes me sad. I can't talk about this much because it makes me so sad. However, this movie had me thinking about what I want for my family given something would ever happen to me. And it also had me thinking about what I would do if I was only given a few months to live. Writing letters to important people for important things is such a sweet and amazing thing to do.

Since we are never promised tomorrow, for now, I will make sure that those around me know they are loved. I will cherish these moments with my small ones and I will love my husband so that he forever knows what true love is.