These Ties That Bind (are not unkind)

Marriage; it always feels so 'doable' (and it is!!)

when sitting in to witness two lives becoming one,

when we are re-impressed and re-reminded of its 'beauties and duties'

 Whether one has been married one year or in our case almost thirty, 

there's always something we can apply to our own versions of 'wedded bliss',

because sometimes hug and kiss hits rumble-strips and we need to slow down and re-evaluate

what and how we are doing at 'love is not self-seeking'

then recommitting to...

Love is patient, love is kind. 

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.  

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. 

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  

Love never fails. 

1 Cor.13:4-8  

Yesterday we celebrated two beautiful lives becoming one!

God bless you, Jamie and Becca 

( Enjoying beautiful post-wedding blooms today, gifted to us by the Mother of the bride)

Two words “I do”

And what was two

Is melded into one

What God has joined

Til death does part

Can never be undone

These ties that bind

Are not unkind

Love’s vows, promised for life

Take ‘he’ and ‘she’

And make it ‘we’

Forever, husband-wife

A miracle

None can annul

God seals what He ordains

With sacred pledge

Two lives are wed

As long as life remains

Oh, happy day

Then come what may

Love bears, believes, endures

With solemn word

God ties the cord

That love’s “I do” secures

From this day forth

For better-worse

Through living’s high and low

Love’s ties that bind

Will not unwind

Until God wills it so

© Janet Martin