In Your Heart - Three Words

In your heart - I LOVE YOU. Three words combination.

My parents were married for over 63 years. But basically had know each other their entire lives. They met when they were about 5 or 6. The married when they were 20 when my dad was in the war (WWII).

My parents REALLY loved each other. I have known such a strong and beautiful love. Even when my dad was missing in the war (he was a POW), my mom never gave up hope. She believed he was alive and kept their love alive.

Telling my mother that my father had passed away was probably the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Mom wailed and cried. She could not believe what she was hearing. "What am I going to do?"

Somewhat we had to help my mom get through each day. There was no way she was going to get over losing my dad - her husband, the love of her life but we had to help her try to get each day.

Before dad passed away he became non-verbal. Mom came up with her own type of sign language. She had decided that whenever she wanted to tell my dad she loved him, she would hold three fingers over her heart. The three fingers meant I LOVE YOU. I thought this was so smart of her.

After dad passed mom wanted to be with him - it was not so much that she wanted to die as she did not want to live without him. She wanted to be with her husband.

To try to help her. we let her know that when the time was right she would be with him and that the reason she did not go then was because it would have been too hard for their children to lose both parents at the same time. We also told her that dad was probably getting things ready for her for some time in the future.

Mom wanted to believe that dad could hear her. We told her that dad would always be in our hearts and that all she had to do was put her three fingers over her heart and dad would know that she loves him.

Three powerful words - I LOVE YOU.