Where Marriage Is Concerned or Day-by-Day 'I Do'

 

Celebrating 38 years of marriage today,

by the grace of God!

As far as marriage is concerned

Love’s law is nothing new

And anniversaries are earned

By day-to-day ‘I do”

Marriage has much to teach, it seems

As ‘I’ is turned to ‘we’

As imagination and dreams

Meets plain Reality

For love, in all its loveliness

Is wrought at a great price

Its prosperity and success

The prize of sacrifice

As love learns about unity

(for love’s vows never cease)

As love agrees to disagree

For simple sake of peace

As love learns how to stand on guard

Where ‘little foxes’ lurk

Where their play ruins love’s vineyard

Without love’s lifetime work

…and its holy, unglamourous

Crash-course in how to pray

As love discovers faithfulness

Is ‘I do’ every day

‘I do’ through life’s laughter and tears

‘I do’ through gray and gold

‘I do’ until days become years

And youth has lost its hold

(And we have come to sacred terms

About each other’s quirks

His hat will land where’re it lands

In Her head, Poem lurks)

Thank God for Three Strands in love’s Cord

To aid when we go wrong

He helps wounded love be restored

To keep it going/growing strong

Because, where marriage is concerned

Love’s law is nothing new

And anniversaries are earned

By day-to-day ‘I do”

Janet Martin

1 Cor.13:4-8

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,

 it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 

7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails

Love never fails but we do!!

thank-you Lord, for your mercies new each morning,

For your forgiveness that makes possible ours!