A love letter...

My dearest love,

I write this to you in a very public setting simply because I do not care who knows the depth to which I love you. You are my blessing and my joy. I love you without knowing how or when or why. I love you with more than all that I am, and with who I hope to be. I love you with a kind of passion that makes the stars brighter and the moon bigger. Without your love I feel as though life would stand still, I would be incomplete and insignificant. You have given me a hope and a peace in a world where neither is abundant or sought after. I cannot wait to share my life with you, to share our dreams and passions. I love you for who you are with any imperfections because those imperfections are the small places I can perfect you. You perfect me in mountains of ways. You make me stronger so that I can make it from day to day. You make me smile when happiness is so far and yet when you catch my tears in the palm of your hand, they are your lips that kiss my eyelids so gently. In your arms, I am protected and in your hands do I feel loved and cared for. Like none other is this love, for no one else again could capture the depths of my soul in just one look and take my breath in just one kiss. Every part of me adores you and our beautiful child growing inside of me loves you unconditionally. This child is the perfection of our love, the addition to something that nothing compares. Words cannot describe how I feel for you, but this child can come close. With this marriage we are one unit, blessed by our Lord. With this child, we are one family, the strongest unit of all, unbreakable and unchangable. You are the strongest man I know, the bravest and the most defined. You have defined your life already in so many ways, but the one that sets you apart is who and how you love. You love so completetly and sincerely. In our vulnerability grew our intimacy, and in our intimacy grew our unconditional love. I want you to know that already you have a legacy and a standard set that others around you try to achieve and constantly fall short. Never let your guard down, there will always be those trying to break you and to break us. Our love defines strength. I am strong for you, for us. This time apart only makes us stronger and I look forward to the day we can look back on our lives and on these moments and laugh knowing that we truly lived with no regrets and with the purest of joy. We lived to the fullest, to the happiest, perhaps not with the most money or with the most "things", but we lived in, through, and for each other, completely, unbroken, and unconditionally in love.

You are my greatest gift.