THE DESIRE OF MY HEART

Today's journey will be a walk down memory lane with me, so bear with me, if you will.
Today is my one year of David's Home going, and it's kinda hard......
In the early Spring of 1972, I found myself coming home from backpacking over in Europe with La Vonne. We had been over there for two months, and I had fallen in love with an Austrian boy named Harry, and was planning to marry him. I came home, and moved to Winston Salem, NC where I took a job as a social director at an apartment complex. Somehow, this great God of ours, deemed it right for me to set up a volleyball match, for the tenants, and one of those playing was a man by the name of David Lock. I wasn't at all captivated by his demeanor at first, but he was intelligent and we talked a lot after the games and shared thoughts.
(I should have known then) He was scheduled to be a camp director in the Adirondacks that summer, and asked me if I would mind apartment sitting for him. That way, I wouldn't have to pay rent! Sounded like a plan to me!
I told this brash "older" man that I would fix him a meal before he left for New York, and he said..." What, TV, dinners?" Well, you don't tell that to 'ole Becky Ray, and get away with it! I put on the dog for him that night and when he left, and walked down the steps that night, I said, "sweet dreams", to which, he turned, and replied," they'll be of you!".... My heart fluttered butterflies!
Folks that was all she wrote, after that!
There was no more Austrian romance after that, and it was David McBrier Lock from then on!
I took him to Florida to meet my parents that November, (when Disney world opened) and I met his parents too! We planned an April 3rd wedding in 1973 and that was the beginning of 37 years together.
I learned many things about this man I was married to for 37 years.
I learned that he spent an early part of his summers on Sapelo, with the RJ Reynolds family, and while there his Father made movies of their many adventures(the old movie camera type). When David took me back there several years ago, the curator of the main house didn't know what the main swimming pool looked like back in the fifties, so David sent him the movie with the pictures of the pool and how it looked back then. He also knew of some secret hiding places that they hadn't known existed either!
Another hidden area of David's heart, that he loved, was the Boys Home in Georgetown. He faithfully sent checks to them at Christmas, and after he died, the family wanted to know who in the world they were. He had such a heart for these boys, that he had even drove up there once and met with them to see them in person, and let them know he cared for them, just because....
You see, I tell you these things, because God knew way back in 1972, that I wasn't suppose to marry Harry. He knew that I was suppose to wait for this man, David, who would drive me crazy with the holes in his shirts; his love for Vienna Sausage; his love for skeet shooting and fishing, and shrimping, but most of all, God knew that David would stand with me when our son died, and take care of me when I had my brain hemorrhage, and provide for me to be able to stay right here after God took him Home to Heaven.
You see, that's what God did for me.
Scripture says, if you delight yourselves in the Lord, He will give you the desires of your heart, and when He took David to Heaven to be with Him, He truly gave me the desire of my heart!
Becky