Poem for my wife Dianna

Dianna always gives Her best and puts Her own desires on hold

Need an honest answer, come to Her, you know the truth is told

Though others leave when times get tough I know she will remain

When my heart is parched and dry Her words have come like rain

She has suffered much yet Her love has endured the test of time

The passion She has given me has caused my words to rhyme

Wisdom found a home in Her and what a treasure now resides

Watch her with our children’s children you’ll see great love inside

Precious are my memories with Her and inspiration for my life

She was cute as childhood sweetheart now beautiful as my wife

She’s my other half my better half and the half has not been told

She’s my one of a kind no average girl in Her they broke the mold

Dianna and I were married in 1979 in the mid 1980’s She became very sick. No one could diagnose the Problem but after breaking several bones in Her foot by simply walking up the stairs we went to Dr. Travis in Harrisonville Missouri. He said something very serious was wrong and sent Dianna to specialist in Research hospital in Kansas City. He diagnosed Dianna with Cushings Syndrome. Cushings is basically a small tumor on the pituitary glad. Dianna has now had 3 brain surgeries and a gamma knife surgery. She has had Her pituitary gland removed and now takes more medicine than I can keep track of. Dianna has suffered so much yet keeps trusting God. She truly is inspiring when you have seen Her suffer like I have over the many years.

29 years who’d a thunk it

February 10, 2008 by riverflowsdown | Edit

Well here we are Dianna and I have made it 29 years. When we got married Feb 9th 1979 most people gave us a year. Nine days not months between our wedding and David’s birth had nothing to do with the jokes about people from Arkansas. Dianna was born in Hot Springs and my Mother was from Mena so we both have razorback blood in our veins. I love Arkansas, jokes and all.Here are some funnies for ya. I love adventure so I took us on a scavenger hunt for chocolate “that’s Diannia’s favorite thing” for our anniversary. We started off at Rocky Mountain Chocolate factory and ended up in Cameron Missouri. We could not afford Cameroon so went to Cameron. We stayed at super 8 because of the indoor pool and 10 degree temperature outside, that was nice. We accumulated a huge stock of chocolate on our days journey we piled on the table and turned on the tv to catch the weather. Would you know the news had a chocolate recipe. Turned the channel to find the movie chocolate playing. Would you know it again, this time Charlie and the chocolate factory. We got a good laugh out of it.

The next morning we went out made ourselves some waffles. We struck up a conversation with a couple from pine-bluff Arkansas. Dianna told them She was from Hot Springs. The couple from the other side of us laughed and said they were from st. Paul Minnesota and were on their way to Hot Springs to play golf. What a small world.

It was a weekend full coincidences if you believe in them for us it was our Father in heaven giving us that little nod that He has been with us from the beginning and has orchestrated our path. On the way Home we stopped and saw NATIONAL TREASURE at the movies. It started my little noggin a thinken. Dianna found Her treasured chocolate this weekend I found my Arkansas Diamond 29 years ago. God Help me here and I’ll write Her Poem.

Dianna

You were ruff and tough, a true Tom boy to the core

The first day I saw you oh how my spirit soared

You were like a mustang daring to be tamed

A loner never crying out for fame

I was a wild one, adventure would be my call

Our lives mixed together, like a painting on the wall

Colors differing, yet blending, and converging into one

On lookers set and wonder, what will it be, when done

Wisdom and zeal have found a home in We

We have given our selves to life, as we crucified our Me

We are one, We are the picture of one, and what is left is none

Dianna I love Us Together, John

Thank Jesus for investing your life in US !!!!