Once Upon a Farm by Rory Feek

Author:Rory Feek
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2018-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

. . . just say it.

My sister Marcy had never told me she loved me. She showed it to me and others in a thousand little ways, but she couldn’t say it. Couldn’t say the words. I’m not sure why. She just couldn’t. For twenty years. Thirty years. She kept those words locked away inside.

I remember many times when something beautiful would take place and Marcy would so desperately want to say the words but couldn’t get them to come out. Her face would turn red, and tears would fall, and she would open her mouth and try to speak them, but they wouldn’t come. I would say, “It’s okay . . . ,” and her tears would fall harder but still nothing.

I guess something that happened in her life years and years ago . . . or many “somethings” . . . made her close that door and promise herself never to open it again. Hurt, I’m sure. Deep, deep pain that someone caused her. Everyone caused her.

And so the greatest three words in the English language stayed trapped inside of my sister for decades. Until the day finally came when the dam broke and the truth flooded out. I don’t remember what happened. When that was exactly. What caused it. But I know it was about six or seven years ago. And Marcy’s never been the same since.

Now, there isn’t hardly a phone call we have or a text that she sends that doesn’t end with “I love you.” If Indiana and I walk over to visit in the afternoon so my baby can play with her grandbabies, it’s almost guaranteed that she will tell Indy, “Aunt Marcy loves you,” again and again while they’re playing with dolls or puzzles. And before I get out the door to head home, she’ll have hugged me and said the words to me too . . . I love you. It is so beautiful to see and hear. Especially knowing how long she had gone without being able to say those words.

We all have things that we long to say but don’t. Powerful words and phrases that can change the world for someone, including ourselves.

I love you. I’m proud of you. I’m sorry. I forgive you.

Love that we want to show or share, but we keep it locked inside. Sometimes to protect ourselves for self-preservation or because we’re damaged and we have desperately needed to hear someone say the words to us, but they never came . . . and so now we don’t know how to say them to others.

And sometimes because we think there’ll be lots of time to say the things we want to say to the people we care about. But the truth is, there isn’t.

Losing my wife, Joey, made it painfully clear that none of us know what tomorrow holds or even if there’s going to be a tomorrow for us. All there really is is today. Right now.

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