With This Ring.
Mom Lamm & Me
I will soon get married. 72 hours and counting, until I’ll get to walk down the aisle, exchange vows before family and friends - and just like that (well, not JUST like that…a lot of work went in to this moment in time!) I’ll be hitched.
The before picture - single. The after picture - married.
This enormous change in a blink of the eye takes me back. It reminds me, how it was when I was out there, lost and confused with regard to my drinking. There’s the “before I stopped” and the after. Separated by one moment, one decision.
One person who will be absent from the wedding is my mom. Back in April she had her own moment. One in which everything too, changed. She had a stroke, and the picture above I snapped with my camera phone was at the hospital as I held her hand and I didn’t think she would live. Moments matter. A life’s course can change in one.
By the time I next post, I will be a married man. Here’s to that, and recovery and life.
- Brad