After Shedding Sweat Comes Tears for Your Wife

Shahram Sedehi
May 25, 2012

Sun Myung Moon, Hak Ja Han, and Hyung Jin Moon -- May 10, 2012

After a hard day earning money, shedding sweat for your wife, you come home. Yet, your wife is late getting back from some errand. You are watching TV and filling your stomach with some food. Yet, she still has not come back and does not answer her cell phone. It is 12 midnight, no news of her!

After so many years of marriage, this has never happened. You start getting mad, pound your fist on the kitchen table... You keep tossing around on the couch, as you are trying to close your eyes to the whole situation.

So many thoughts of horror pass through your mind, of what could have happened...you start blaming her, yourself, and anyone you could think of! Yet, still she is not home.

Then as you are pulling your hair, your eye catch an old photo of you and your wife, on the wall; it bring back passionate memories of when you were infatuated in love with her! Magically, all the feelings of anger and blame, gradually, turn into gratitude...

Tears quietly fall off your cheek as you feel your heart, missing her. You realize how long it's been since you shed tears for your wife and longed for her. Has it been 5 years, 10, maybe 20 years! And then you hear a key turn in the door lock...you jump out of your chair and almost knock her over, greeting her with a firm and loving hug...