Our Anniversary

Yesterday was our anniversary. We have been married 27 years. Last night the last thing we said to each other was 27 years, can you believe it?

The infatuation and emotion of falling in love has been replaced by a true and strong love, a love that is both head and heart. There are many couples today who walk away from marriage because they say they don't love their partner any more. I think this is because they see love as an emotion or feeling only. True love is a decision as much as an emotion. It is deciding to love someone else more than yourself. It is keeping a promise, a commitment, that you made.

One of my memory verses is Ecc. 4:12, "A cord of 3 strands is not quickly broken." I think that a strong marriage is like that. Each person is a cord, but it takes that third cord, the cord of Jesus' love for us, to make it one that is not quickly broken.

Lord, thank you for the wonderful man that you have given to love me. Thank you for the wonderful 27 years we have had together. Thank you for our children and all they have given to our lives, for adding their cords to our lives. I pray that my children will see that we have woven the cord of Christ's love into our lives and that they will one day weave that cord in their marriages.