Oh my gosh! I actually posted another Amazing Grace story! Hope however few people are reading these didn't have too long of a wait! I actually wrote most of this while on a treadmill. Do you know how hard it is to do that? Why am I even telling you this? You probably just want to read the story and for some reason you're reading this and it's going on forever…I should shut up now, shouldn't I? Okay, here you go!
If I owned this, the movie would be no different!
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When the priest announced that we would be singing Amazing Grace by request of my beloved Barbara, I had mixed emotions. I love that song and the message it gives but at the same time I regretted not being able to sing its beautiful notes. But I did not need to sing to speak the words.
It started as a whisper, then a declaration, and then, as I heard the sweet voice of my wife-to-be and the chorus of our loved ones behind us, it returned. My voice returned! I had not heard it for so long that I had forgotten how much I loved to sing. It took me by such surprise that my heard skipped a beat. I felt young again.
And as I sang, as my voice escaped the prison in which it had been restricted for all this time, as my lips formed the glorious words of hope and grace, I realized that it wasn't the sickness that had taken my voice, or at least had kept it from returning, it was my despair; my lack of hope and the very little evidence of grace in my life that had suppressed my ability to sing.
But my despair now held no power over me and I swore right then and there that it would no longer do so. Today was the happiest day of my life. Only one person alone on this earth could make me feel this happy and she was standing next to me; beautiful, strong, calling my voice from the depths. I don't know if she realized what she had done, but she knows me so well and the look she gave me as I glanced at her said she did. Her look held such love and satisfaction that I could not think otherwise.
She had brought my voice back.
A shorty this time but I hope you liked it. R&R if you feel so obliged and kind enough to do so! Thanks!
