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| Eugenio Zampighi - Elderly couple reading (before 1930) |
Can the ocean keep from rushing to the shore?
It's Impossible.
If I had you, Could I ever want for more?
It's impossible.
-PERRY COMO
Mr. Peasant and I just celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. Typically, I wouldn't write about such a sappy date, but it's been a pretty terrible year filled with losing three family members and Mr. Peasant's ongoing leg recovery. I am compelled to rejoice over today. Not many people have loved a man through three huge changes. When I married Mr. Peasant, he was an atheist. Then, through the Lord's goodness, he converted to a Roman Catholic. Lastly he suffered a traumatic brain injury 7 years ago. He is still recovering from that. I have loved three different versions of him. I always tell him that I'll take him any way I can get him.
I never know what this blog will end up being 20 years from now. I want whoever finds this to know this blog is about two people who married after only knowing each other 3 months in a notary's living room and the union was con-validated in an empty church 9 months later. We made our vows surrounded by the priest, my sisters and my mother with no dress and a small gold band from JC Penney's and a bouquet from the Piggly Wiggly grocery store. Our frugality started by wanting to buy a house. The habits formed over 10 years and the house we own today has been an ark to help us survive through Mr. Peasant's disability.
It is a simple promise said without truly believing the sicker, poorer, or worse will ever come to be. Most of the time people leave when one of these tragedies pop up. We have been handed all three bad things, and I would marry him all over again. He is the reason I don't need much. He is the reason I fight so strongly for living small, saving, and not being materialistic because shit happens. We can live happily on ramen noodles and love. I don't need a new car, a house remodel, birthday dinners out, gifts around the tree, travel and pampering. I just need him. And knowing this and having his love makes it incredibly easy to navigate a tiny life. So if anyone wants to know who we are, we are the Noble Peasants. Our story is a love story; Mr. Peasant,The Lord and I.
The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.
He hath set me in a place of pasture.
He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:
He hath converted my soul.
He hath led me on the paths of justice, for his own name's sake.
For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me.
Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.
Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me.
Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebriateth me, how goodly is it!
And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life.
And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.
PSALM 22 DOUAY-RHEIMS
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| Eugène Laermans - Old Couple - 1925 |
