Wow.

One word.  Three letters. The entire world.

That’s what started it all.

He saw her.  He said one word.  And their lives have never been the same since.

Six weeks after that one word, I sat with them at their dinner table to talk about the beautiful wedding that would be happening five months later.

All this say that, one year ago today; these two people had never laid eyes on each other…had never heard one another’s voice…had never known a life that included the other.

One year ago today…these two worlds had not yet collided.

And I think the idea of this would be hard for some people to understand.  The idea that – in such a short time – two lives could so easily become one.

But the thing of it is…I don’t believe it’s something we’re necessarily meant to understand.  I don’t think we are always meant to look at the love…the passion…the life that any two people have and try to make sense of it.  Because it’s just not how human connections work.  Because in the end…we don’t choose love…love chooses us.

So, instead, we are to walk through this life and gaze upon the majesty of every person we are privileged enough to share it with.  Some of those people will hold our hearts softly in the palm of their hands…some of them will be the pillars of all that we hold tight…and others, will simply say one word at first glance…and become everything all at once…