Wedded Bliss

Husband and I will be celebrating our 39th Wedding Anniversary this week-end!  39 years.  That's a while.

Our actual wedding day was a rainy one that cleared up just before our 6 o'clock service was to take place.  Beams of sunlight streaked through the clouds and the birds began to sing.  Our outdoor wedding would happen.

Life as a married Lady has been a great deal like this.
Just when I thought things were over....the atmosphere changed for the better!

We were sitting and chatting last night over a HOTDOG at Sam's. Hubby told me thank you for staying married to him.  You see it hasn't always been a bed of roses in our marriage.  Like most marriages, there have been some high hurdles to jump, wide rivers to swim, dry grounds to plow.

I know without a shadow of a doubt, that if my Husband had not embraced our Heavenly Father as his own, repented and changed, that we would have become a statistic and divorced.   There is hope in the Lord.  HOPE.  I have had to cling to God's mercy so many times.

Collapsing to the floor from being overwhelmed with distraught, my legs gave out.  I was a young woman at the time being 34 years of age when I came to understand how some people die from a broken heart.  Lying on the floor in a heap of humanity is where I cried out to God and whaled in despair.  My Jesus was faithful in giving me strength to get back up to take care of my children and home.  

It has been an on going work over the years to forgive, put to rest the past, enjoy the present and get excited about the future as Husband and Wife.  Without the Holy Spirit washing over us and through us, we would not have healed.  

This week-end, we will eat steak, baked potatoes and salad.  I will be going to the store here in just a little while to purchase items for our special celebration between the two of us.  While we have a special meal together to celebrate 39 years of marriage, I cannot say it has been wedded bliss the entire time, but can focus on the good that has come as a couple.  Embracing the forgiveness and mercy we have had to have during this time as a married couple.  Thanking God for what He has shown us through it all.  I'll take the phone off the hook.  Place a do not disturb sign on the door.  Light some candles, put some soft music on. Sit together and talk.  Remembering that special day of saying our wedding vows with great expectation of a future together.  

Please wish us well.
May your week-end be a sweet one.
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