Our Twenty-ninth Anniversary

Our Twenty-ninth Anniversary...

This lovely bouquet was given to us by our children (and some of their friends) along with a box of chocolates!


I have an old water stained (from falling off of the kitchen window sill into the dish water numerous times) flip calendar of verses that I purchased about 12 years ago for 25 cents at a thrift store that continues to bless me through the years. A few days before our 29th anniversary I read this there:
Perhaps the greatest blessing in marriage is that it lasts so long.  The years, like the varying interests of each year, combine to buttress and enrich each other.  Out of many shared years, one life.  In a series of temporary relationships, one misses the ripening, gathering, harvesting joys, the deep, hard-won truths of marriage. 
Richard C. Cabot

Our anniversary was spent doing ordinary things, like working for a living and caring for our home and family. These are the most precious times of our lives after all and living them out on a special occasion such as this seemed, well....fitting!  The above quote really says so much. There is no one else who knows me quite like my husband or loves me as much. It's at once humbling and elating to realize that he loves me in spite of knowing all about me. Over the years we have become so very like minded...we have the same taste, like the same foods, share the same opinions and hold the same view and values. 
Maybe when God's Word says "The two shall become one flesh" there's more to the 'become' than we realize.
At the end of the day we did go out for a lovely steak and lobster dinner and all the while I sat across from Jeff thinking....how many times have we eaten out like this? Oh, the challenges, victories, defeats, joys and sorrows we have shared. Of course it hasn't always been easy, but worth it? Most definitely!


I praise and thank God for making me who I am...my husband's wife!