For Better or Worse...

 Thanking God for the privilege of being able 

to celebrate 32 years of marriage today, by His grace...

Part of what I love about Jim is his never-ending ability to make me laugh.
I think he was waiting for an anniversary post cause he just saw it and texted me this
"I look like a pylon"😂

For better or for worse; who knows what factors will unfold

To test and try the caliber of vows to have and hold

This life of highs and lows husband and wife must jointly meet

To weather together both woe and wonders bittersweet

Marriage is no band-wagon that we board and disembark

According to our whims and wants; it is till death doth part

So from the words ‘I do’ we ought to keep this thought in mind

To help us strive to be more unselfish, patient and kind

For better or for worse is not a curse or ball and chain

It is the grace of sharing both love's pleasure and its pain 

It is full of surprises after groom kisses the bride

After two become one and discover love's 'other side' 😉

Marriage is more than signatures on a certificate

Two become one and none on earth its bond can abrogate

For what the Lord has joined His Hand alone will disannul

Till death doth part is not for faint of heart or disloyal

Marriage is learning to forgive and give more than we take

It’s saying I am sorry and admitting a mistake

It’s meeting in the middle toward a mutual aim

It’s learning to adapt to change; nobody stays the same

Marriage; it takes two but is always happier with Three

Husband and wife, with God as the crowning Supremacy

Where pray, that day by day and year by year as vows are tried

Marriage reflects the love that Heaven’s Groom has for His Bride

© Janet Martin

 Sharing Jean Hersey's practical and timeless thoughts on marriage

from the book The Shape of a Year

(hope you can read it...I couldn't choose a favourite paragraph) 

 

Jim and I are both Don Williams fans...

choosing these today