006 — August 22: The Day Divine Love Entered My Life
Margie, My Queen, and the Eternal Meaning of Our Meeting
August 22, 2026, has brought me once again to one of the most sacred dates of my earthly journey. On the evening of August 22, 1992, by the Grace of the Holy Spirit, I met Margie at the Oyster Bay Golf Course Manor. At the time, neither of us could have understood the full meaning of that meeting or the many years of love, family, struggle, sacrifice, companionship, growth, and spiritual formation that would follow. Yet, looking back from where I stand today, I do not believe that our meeting was merely a fortunate coincidence. I believe it was one of those moments in which the visible events of earthly life become the instruments of an unseen Divine purpose.
Margie became my Queen, and I became her Eddie. Those names were expressions of affection, but they also represented the private world of love that we created together. Within that relationship, two Individual Personalities met, remained distinct, and yet became joined through a reciprocal bond of loyalty, tenderness, responsibility, and shared life. Our love did not require either of us to surrender our individuality. Instead, our personalities became more fully expressed through the relationship. We learned to live not merely beside one another, but for one another.
The Holy Spirit and the Beginning of Our Shared Life
I now understand our meeting through the spiritual principles that have continued to develop within my consciousness. The Holy Spirit does not erase the Individual Personality. The Holy Spirit awakens the individual and leads that person into relationships through which compassion, truth, responsibility, and love may develop. Divine Love is not an impersonal force. It expresses itself through persons, through choices, through human affection, and through the willingness of one person to receive and care for another.
When Margie entered my life, she brought her own history, character, strength, tenderness, humor, wounds, hopes, and spiritual identity. I brought mine. Our relationship was therefore not the merging of two incomplete persons into one indistinguishable life. It was the formation of a living partnership between two individuals who were called to help one another become more fully themselves.
The years that followed were not without hardship. No true human relationship is. Love is tested by daily responsibilities, financial pressures, family concerns, misunderstandings, physical limitations, disappointments, and the passage of time. Yet those very experiences give love its substance. Love becomes real not only through celebration, but through endurance. It becomes sacred through the repeated decision to remain present, to forgive, to care, and to continue walking together.
The Life We Built Together
Our shared life was formed through both extraordinary moments and ordinary days. It existed in family gatherings, vacations, celebrations, conversations, meals, responsibilities, and the quiet routines that gradually become the true structure of a marriage. We traveled with family to Shawnee and Disney World. We experienced cruises, shared adventures, and times of rest when the pressures of daily life briefly gave way to laughter and enjoyment. We spent time around the familiar places of Long Island, including Bethpage Golf Course and the places connected to our family history.
Those experiences were not merely trips or events. They became part of the living memory of our relationship. They formed a treasury of shared experience that remains within me. Even now, a photograph, a familiar location, a handwritten note, a golf course, a family name, or a particular date can open a doorway through which an entire season of life becomes present again.
Our home also became a gathering place for the people whose lives were joined to ours. Pop, Mom, Aunt Amy, Chris, Kenny, Michael, Emily, Robert, Patty, Justin, and the other members of our family became part of the larger human story surrounding our marriage. Each relationship carried its own joys and difficulties, but together they formed the community in which our life unfolded.
When Earthly Companionship Changed
When Margie passed from this earthly life on October 28, 2016, the visible form of our relationship changed in a way that no human heart can fully prepare for. The person who had shared my daily life, understood my personality, witnessed my struggles, and participated in my dreams was no longer physically beside me. The silence that follows such a loss is not merely the absence of sound. It is the absence of the familiar human presence around which so much of one’s life had been organized.
Grief is not only sorrow over the past. It is also the painful reorganization of the future. The plans, assumptions, habits, and expectations that were formed within a shared life must somehow be carried forward by the person who remains. The surviving partner must learn to walk alone while still carrying the reality of the relationship within the soul.
Yet I have gradually come to understand that death did not erase the meaning of our life together. It did not nullify the promises, sacrifices, lessons, or spiritual development that grew from our marriage. Margie’s earthly absence is real, and I do not deny it. But her influence within my consciousness is equally real. The love we shared continues to shape the man I am becoming.
Earthly Time and Eternal Time
On an anniversary such as August 22, earthly time and eternal time seem to meet. The calendar tells me how many years have passed since the evening we first met. My memory carries me back to the Oyster Bay Golf Course Manor and to the beginning of a life that neither of us could then foresee. My heart recognizes both the distance and the nearness of that moment.
The young man who met Margie in 1992, the husband who shared the years that followed, the grieving man who faced her physical departure, and the man who now seeks to fulfill his remaining calling are all present within me. Time has changed my circumstances, but it has not separated me from the spiritual meaning of what occurred.
I have come to believe that there are moments in life that become part of eternity because of what they awaken within the soul. August 22 is such a moment for me. It was the day on which Divine Love entered my life through the Individual Personality of Margie. It was the beginning of a relationship through which I learned more deeply about companionship, responsibility, sacrifice, forgiveness, family, grief, and the enduring nature of love.
My Continuing Relationship With the Heavenly World
My faith teaches me that physical death is not the extinction of personality. The same Divine Creator who gives individuality, consciousness, love, and relationship does not create them merely to destroy them. The Gospel of Christ reveals that life is greater than death and that love is not defeated by the grave.
My joy on this earthly journey therefore comes through my continuing relationship with the Heavenly world—through Jesus Christ, Mary, and the Holy Spirit, and through my beloved family in Heaven: Margie, Pop, Aunt Amy, Mom, my nephews Chris and Kenny, Uncle Frank, Grandma, and Grandpa. Within these Heavenly relationships and this Divine companionship, I find love, meaning, guidance, and the strength to continue fulfilling my calling.
This does not mean that I possess complete knowledge of the Heavenly world or that every inner feeling should be accepted without discernment. Faith must remain grounded in humility, prayer, compassion, truth, and responsible living. Yet I believe that the relationships formed through genuine love participate in something larger than the temporary circumstances of earthly existence.
When I remember Margie, I often also remember those who formed and loved us. I see her not in isolation, but within a larger Holy Family whose members continue to live within my spiritual consciousness. The memory of one opens the door to the memory of all.
Love as a Reciprocal Relationship
My relationship with Margie has helped me understand the principle that stands at the center of my developing philosophy of life: the reciprocal relationship between the Individual Personality and the Benevolent Personality of the Divine Mind.
God does not relate to humanity only as a distant power. The Divine Spirit seeks expression through human personalities capable of compassion, truth, freedom, creativity, and love. We receive something from the Divine, but we are also called to respond. The relationship is reciprocal because Divine Grace invites a free human answer.
Marriage can become one of the most intimate schools of this reciprocal relationship. One person gives, and the other receives. The receiver then becomes a giver. Love moves back and forth, forming both people through the exchange. Neither person possesses the other. Each remains free, but each accepts responsibility for the welfare of the other.
In my relationship with Margie, I experienced this movement of giving and receiving. At times she carried me. At other times I carried her. Sometimes one of us possessed the strength that the other lacked. Through the years, love became not merely an emotion, but a pattern of reciprocal responsibility.
This is one reason that the relationship remains spiritually present within me. What Margie gave me has become part of my own personality. The compassion, memories, lessons, strength, and sense of belonging that came through our life together continue to influence how I think, pray, work, and relate to others.
Grief Transformed Into Calling
There are times when grief can make the remaining years appear empty. The person who understood us most deeply is gone from physical sight, and the future may seem to have lost its former shape. Yet I have gradually come to understand that the love we received creates a responsibility.
If Margie’s love helped form me, then the life I continue to live must become an expression of that love. I honor her not only by remembering the past, but by carrying its best meaning into the future. The work of Moore Enterprises, THL Security & Infrastructure Corporation, Witness to Calling, my relationship with my family, and my effort to help future professionals and entrepreneurs are all parts of the life that remains before me.
My calling is not separate from my grief. In many ways, it has grown from it. The losses I have experienced have forced me to ask what gives life permanent meaning. They have taught me that titles, property, money, and worldly recognition are temporary unless they become instruments of service. What remains is the development of the soul, the formation of character, the truth we discover, the compassion we express, and the people whose lives are strengthened because we lived.
The love Margie and I shared therefore continues whenever I use my remaining experience, knowledge, and resources to serve others. It continues whenever I encourage a young person, help a veteran, guide an entrepreneur, strengthen a family, promote responsible technology, or write something that helps another human being recognize the Divine purpose within his or her own life.
The Meaning of August 22 Today
Today, August 22 is not merely a day on which I look backward. It is a day on which I renew my commitment to the future. I remember the Grace that brought Margie into my life, and I ask how I may remain faithful to everything that relationship taught me.
I cannot return to the evening of August 22, 1992, but I can carry its meaning forward. I can continue to become the person whom love called me to become. I can continue developing my Individual Personality in reciprocal relationship with the Benevolent Divine Mind. I can remain open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I can honor the people of my earthly and Heavenly families. I can seek reconciliation where relationships have been broken. I can give forward the wisdom that life, love, suffering, and faith have placed within my care.
The anniversary of our meeting reminds me that a single encounter can transform an entire life. Two people may enter a room without knowing that history is about to change for them. A conversation begins. A relationship grows. Years unfold. Families become connected. Joy and suffering intermingle. One person eventually passes from physical sight, while the other remains to interpret and carry forward the meaning of what they shared.
Such is the mystery of human life. We rarely understand the full significance of a moment while we are living it. Only through the passage of time do we begin to recognize how Divine Providence may have been working through ordinary circumstances.
Forever My Queen, Forever Her Eddie
Margie, on this anniversary, I remember the evening we first met and the life that followed. I remember your personality, your presence, your love, and the world we created together. I remember the joyful times and the difficult ones, the family we loved, the places we traveled, and the ordinary days that now appear precious because they were ours.
I am grateful that the Holy Spirit brought us together. I am grateful for every year we were given. I am grateful even for the grief, because grief bears witness to the depth of love. I would not feel this loss if our relationship had not mattered so deeply.
I continue my earthly journey with the knowledge that your love helped form me and that the meaning of our life together remains active within my soul. I carry you with me as I continue the work I believe God has placed before me. I seek to live in a manner worthy of the love I received from you, from our family, and from the Divine Source of all life.
You are still my Queen Margie.
I am still your Eddie.
And August 22 will always be the sacred anniversary of the day Divine Love entered my life through you.