Love, Far More Than It Appears...

Jim and I are celebrating 36 years of wedded bliss today!

Some days more blissful than others, for such is love and life...

It may appear quite commonplace; The love between husband and wife

As, for better or worse, we face/brace and share the highs and lows of life

Where workaday and give-and-take and find-a-way to get along

Is not always a piece of cake to keep love patient, kind and strong

Love, as it weathers smiles and tears of ‘what God joins till death doth part’

Is always more than it appears, and never for the faint of heart

For no matter how old or young or very much in love we are

Sometimes we do not bite our tongue, sometimes diff’ring opinions spar

Love is life’s very complex Best; so bitter-sweet, so wonder-full,

So rife with changes bound to test perspective with its push and pull

But, pray we tenderly revere Now-and-Here’s opportunity

For no one knows how far or near till farewell’s somber certainty

How graciously God’s goodness grants fresh chances as we live and learn

For every single circumstance love guarantees a rich return

And, though it may look commonplace, love is far more than it appears

It is a gift that, by God’s grace, grows dearer with the passing years

Heart throb, heartbreak; the stakes of love are very sacred and severe 

The pinnacle of perfect joy and tender trove of grief-borne tear 

Where we can never tell what waits to try the waning ties that bind

Around God's fingers as the days and years softly, surely unwind 

How often, unexpectedly, Death reaches in to claim its prey

How often then, more reverently we vow to treasure every day

And cherish the familiar face of still-present husband or wife

And prize what appears commonplace, but is the very best of life

A wedding anniversary is never commonplace, my dear 

It is the evidence that 'we' have weathered one more God-lent year

It is a celebration of the highs and lows love has withstood

Not by ourselves, but by the love of God who is faithful and good 

© Janet Martin

Yes, Love often appears quite commonplace... whether it's

Hubby's hearty swig from Wife's morning coffee

(because its the perfect temperature!)

or,

Hubby's 'toss his hat whither-so-ever it lands' except the hooks inside the door,

quite indifferent to Wife's 'evil eye' 😛😂😅

...and SO many things that Wife does and drives Husband batty,

Long stories, too many bunny trails, 😅

(but I've wondered why he cares when it clearly seems he often

  isn't listening in the first place) 😂

Always poetry waiting to be written...

Forgetting to pay bills on time...OOPS!! 

Ain't love grand?!!

Mark 10:7-9

7‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother 

and be united to his wife,c

8and the two will become one flesh.’d 

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 

9Therefore what God has joined together, 

let man not separate.”