Vince Gill - Sweet Memories

“Sweetest Memories” began for me at a time in my life when I felt a little lost. I had ended a marriage that I had thought would last forever and I was scared to open my heart, again. I met this wonderful man who quickly was a natural fit. We enjoyed a very busy life and it was exciting, dating and feeling alive again. My love would sing along to your song, “I Still Believe in You” telling me that the song made him think of me. I recall feeling irritated as I thought it was really for his first wife! He explained it made him feel like he wanted to be the best he could for me and that he felt I believed in him. It was a chance for him to do things differently. We would listen together and little did I understand how important this song was yet to become. I was a strong woman, a nurse working shifts trying my best to be a Mom. My love always supported me to be courageous and to pursue my career dreams, while he helped me to encourage my children to enjoy their best life and then when the day was done, he was and is my soft place to fall. The day one of my sons said he could depend on him to get to hockey, my heart began to melt. So we raised our children together, we both worked long hours but we always found time to be “A love that always will be”. Through the years and then the sudden death of my two oldest sons, Blair and Byron, he was always there “Standing so strong and true”. I couldn’t have done this or be here today without him. Time and life moved on and still I seemed to take/need more than I gave, maybe putting him at “the end of the line’. So when he began a new career and he was the busy one, it was my time to “Prove to you, and I’ll make it up to you”. Together we are working his business towards retirement. Soon we will start this new adventure, hand in hand. The time for taking turns has worked. We are together, beside one another. Twenty three years later I see how this song was written, for us. It describes who were were for each other. It might have been written intended for only one to apologize but for us it describes how “With a love that always will be, Standing so strong and true”, defines our love story. I didn’t realize the wisdom my love had when he first sung those words, they were and are just for us. I am so blessed, because “Baby I still believe in you and me”. Thank you Vince Gill and John Jarvis for writing our script for all the “Sweetest Memories”.