One of my favorite movies is the William Goldman penned, Rob Reiner directed masterpiece, “The Princess Bride”. The kernel of the movie revolves around the human pursuit of “true love.” In close to 45 years of marriage, I have found discovered the meaning of true love. It is not the advertised images of young, nubile couples frolicking at some resort along the Caribbean coastline, nor romantic liaisons in exotic places of our world. True love is found not in melodramatic romance novels. True love is only truly found in the everyday mundanity of life. Hence, the origin of this poem.
My feet suspended from the end of the foot rest of my recliner. Socks gently removed, your hands warm the oil, softly, tenderly massaging its mysterious healing properties into my dry heels, my weary arches, my sore soles and toes. Your reflexology of love simultaneously, lovingly massaging my soul.
(c) 2019, Robert Charles Wagner. All rights reserved.
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I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts.
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