Christmas Eve engagement leads to 18 years of happy married life

One of my favorite Christmas memories goes back to 1993.

It was Christmas Eve, and my husband, Don, and I became engaged.

We had both been widowed, and met each other on a blind date.

So all the family members were gathered together—the six children, husbands and wives, and all the grandchildren.

He got down on one knee—which wasn’t too easy at his age—and asked me to marry him.

It’s been 18 years now. Ours has been a good marriage made in heaven, and we live happily ever after.

God is good!

(Theresa McHolland is a member of Holy Spirit Parish in Fishers, Ind., in the Lafayette Diocese.) †

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