Several years ago, before either Jimmy or I had any inkling of our future health problems, I walked into the room while Jimmy was watching a movie. Tears were streaming down his face. I'd never seen that before, and have not seen it since, at least in the context of a movie. "What on earth?" I asked him. "Sad," he mumbled, mopping his face.
He was watching "Shadowlands," a 1993 movie starring Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis and Debra Winger as his wife Joy who died of cancer four years into their marriage. As they walked through the English countryside, Joy was trying to prepare her husband for her imminent death. "Without the pain of today, we can't have the happiness of yesterday. That's the deal."
I need to remember that. God has blessed Jimmy and me with such great happiness, and to experience a profound sense of loss is only fair when the end comes.
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