Another small break from my stroll through 1Thessalonians. Bob and I are celebrating our 59th wedding anniversary today. Fifty-nine years is hard to believe as it seems like we just started on this journey a few years ago. We will celebrate quietly, probably an early dinner at Texas Roadhouse since that is Bob’s favorite place to go.
As a couple we have lived in 22 different houses or apartments, starting life together in California and now spending our “golden years” in Idaho.
We have three beautiful children. We love their spouses. We have seven grandchildren and one great. We love and enjoy each one.
Life has not always been easy. We are definitely taking advantage of our marriage vows. We have experienced “for better or worse,” and “for richer or poorer,” and are now living in the “in sickness and in health” part.
We fought fiercely and loved the same way. We joke that we never considered divorce but did on occasion “consult hitmen.”
Through it all – the better and worse, the richer and poorer and the sickness and health – God’s grace has carried us. I heartily agree with that thought expressed in the beautiful song “The Goodness of God,” “all my life I have lived in the goodness of God.”
Thank you Jesus!