Last week Liz and I celebrated our Fifty-Fifth wedding anniversary. We recognize in doing so we are greatly blessed. Many of our friends and contemporaries are not so blessed because one or the other of these couples has died. Also, a few have experienced the trauma of divorce. God has blessed us with life and love. It’s awesome to realize we have been together so long. (We dated five years before we married, so we’ve actually “been together” sixty years.)
I wrote a short verse for the
occasion to accompany a gift. It goes as follows:
“Sakes alive! Sakes alive!"
Here we are at fifty-five!
Fifty five? Yes fifty-five!
What causes a marriage so long to survive?
First, enough health for US to
last so long.
Second, a love that is unusually strong.
A love that sees in each the best
And then ignores all the rest.
We rejoice today in what we’ve been given,
And trust it will last ‘til we get to heaven.”
(i.e. ‘til death do us part.)
So rejoice with us and pray for
us. Pray that God will continue to give us good health and that we will remain
in the center of God’s will. Kit and Julie received many good wishes for us on their posts for our anniversary, and we received many cards and phone calls. Thank you all who communicated.
And remember; love endures, is kind, never fails, does not envy, is not
proud, behaves, doesn’t claim its rights, isn’t easily provoked, assumes the
best, rejoices in the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things, “love never fails.”
(1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
Grace and peace.
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