I have never met Janice in person but certainly intend to visit her and her husband Colin at their home on the coast at my very first opportunity. Janice and Colin moved to their present coastal home from Halifax a few months ago. From what I know about Janice, she has been a loving carer to her poorly husband for many years now and she devotes her entire time attending to his every need 24 hours daily; much as my wife Sheila does for myself.
In fact, I understand that both Janice and Colin have spent a lifetime caring for numerous children whom they effectively fostered and reared throughout their married years. There are so many people in this world, who owe everything they have, everything they have become, and everything they will ever be, to Janice and Colin.
When one examines the human sacrifices that anyone makes, it is those people who give the most precious of all their gifts to another who stand out like beacons of hope in our darkest hours; for through the giving of their time, their detailed and sensitive attention, their constant concern and eternal and unqualified love, they give all they have when they give over to others, their own life! Both Janice and her husband Colin fit this category of person better than any couple I know of.
If ever a couple deserves the title of ‘Mr. and Mrs. Love’ or ‘Mum and Dad’, it is Colin and Janice! And, I have not the slightest doubt that was I to physically place before them in person, every child they ever nurtured into adulthood and independence, the collective response shouted out loud and clear by ‘all their children’ would be what every child heard every day that they were in Janice’s and Colin’s loving care and protection: “I Will Always Love You’.
I have never met you both yet, Janice, but I love what you and Colin have done with your time over the years you have been together as ‘man and wife’ and ‘mother and father’ and ‘good friend and neighbour’. I cannot think of any better way to live one’s life than to live it in love with the people of your family and the nature and nurture that surrounds you. You both serve as a model of how one’s life can be best lived. You each remind us of how anyone’s time and emotions could be best spent, and how one’s unqualified love, concern, sensitivity, and assistance be gently dispensed to others.
On this belated birthday wish, allow me to hold up to the world, the mirror that reflects the selfless actions of yourself and Colin in your lives thus far.
My song today is ‘I Will Always Love You’. Have a lovely day. You both deserve it. Thank you for being you. ‘I Will Always Love You (both)’. Bill xxx
Love and peace Bill xxx