I reach in and pull out an old Clark spool wrapped with a pretty, rich blue thread that is stained with a milk chocolate brown. I think of a wedding party long ago, girls dressed in this brown with blue ribbons all around. So very lovely. A magnificent day on the river. Almost Autumn but not quite. A beautiful bride and handsome groom happily joining hands in matrimony. Such joy and anticipation.
Years pass - and the marriage ends. Amicably, but over. They are both a bit tattered and stained like this spool of blue and brown thread but they are both still sturdy and will carry on.
More years pass. The bride has remarried. The groom is engaged. Life is good as the sweatshirt says it should be.
Why did this old spool of stained blue thread make me think of this marriage? Is it the wedding colors - the beautiful blue, the rich chocolate brown or is it more? I look at it and I wonder at the resilience of marriage; the value of marriage even if it ends and both parties move forward to love others? Go on to love more deeply and well. I think how fortunate we are as a family to hang on the treads of love that began that day and unwound into something different than we planned. How that thread got tangled and untangled and sewn into something so very different than we expected and yet, how grateful we are that happily ever after is happening for them both - even if not together. Not every spool story sews in a straight line.
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