THE MAGIC OF NEED

THE MAGIC OF NEED

Early in the morning, a Ruby Crystal year ago, during the New Year’s mass, I uttered a very short and simple prayer: “Lord, this year I am planning to marry. If it will be good for me and if it will be for the greater glory of God please send me the right woman”.

The day after, God sent her to me. She was not the maiden I wanted in my mind but she must be the Eve I needed in my life. After three short meetings in a period of eleven days and forty five minutes of informal but sincere courtship, we married in a whirlwind manner. We hurriedly made our vows before the altar of the Lord not because we were being chased by anyone but simply because we were old enough to do so.

It turned out that I was also the man she needed. Our mutual need for each other became the strongest string that bound us tightly together.It also took us a long period of confusing and troubling adjustment but gradually we discovered our individual needs. Through trial and error we slowly found the way to fill those needs until we both realized that the magic power of a successful relationship is simply filling each other’s needs.

Even since that matrimonial power of needs and our improved method of filling them remained our miracle potion that brought us five healthy children. Two boys and three girls who were all healthy and not one ever brought home a grave problem.

We considered ourselves billionaire in that sense. Now, those billions of blessings have attracted three healthy, kind and roundly qualified sons-in-law, one pretty, healthy and very capable daughter-in-law, all on them instrumental in bringing us five pretty angels, two handsome warriors and another wonder child coming soon.

As we celebrate separately (because that is the need of the moment) our Ruby Wedding Anniversary, we thank, praise, adore and glorify God for all the wonderful graces. He taught us that the secret of a lasting and harmonious relationship is nothing but the magic power of filling each other’s needs. In the final analysis, the magic of need is the needed magic.