Happy Anniversay, Robyn and Emily

 A year ago today these two became one...wishing you, Robyn and Emily, many more years of rich blessing from God.

Marriage makes ‘our’ and ‘we’

Instead of ‘my’ and ‘me’

It unites two with this; ‘I do’

And binds them eternally

While we cheer and applaud

And witness vows of love

One sacred kiss signifies this;

A promise sealed by God

Bridegroom and bride, one day

Husband and wife for aye

We pray, God bless with happiness

And love, each come-what-may

© Janet Martin


Love and best wishes from all of us ...

Victoria, Matthew, Melissa, Robyn & Emily, Mom and Dad

A Beautiful Thing...50th Wedding Anniversary Poem

Somewhere between morning and night

And toil and sleep, shadow and sun

Between the give and take of life

A thing of beauty is begun

Love’s vows, pledged in the green of life

Are spoken on a dreamer’s strength

Til death do us part; husband and wife

Only God knows its breadth or length

Somewhere between laughter and song

The trial and tear, the calm, the storm

Somewhere, as year folds over year

A thing of beauty starts to form

Between midnight, breakfast toast crumbs

And suppertime and evening prayers

Love’s vows spoken, untried and young

Are being tempered by life’s cares

As bud slowly exposes bloom

A miracle above man’s power

Ah, so is love; the bride and groom

Must wait to see its fullest flower

But oh, as green gives way to gold

And gold to silver-haloed truth

As vows are more than words extolled

In fanciful day-dreams of youth…

…then we begin to see first-hand

This thing that faithfulness imparts

Of beauty unsurpassed, rare, grand

Not of the flesh, but of the heart

Somewhere within life’s highs and lows

Where two are one in God above

Youth’s bud reveals a perfect rose

The proven beauty of true love

© Janet Martin

Tomorrow my parents celebrate 50 years of marriage. Thank-you Mom and Dad and may God bless you with many more wonderful years!

Marriage: It Doesn't Just Happen

 

To all us married folk I say 'cheers,

May love be so blissfully happy

we forget to count the years'

Does this cute cartoon not say it all?...now on a more serious note:

It doesn’t just happen

Love’s bearing; its bending

Is an earnest diligence

Of careful tending

It doesn’t just happen

Love’s time-tender glow

Is not something earned lightly

In life’s ebb and flow

It doesn’t just happen

Love’s sure testament

Is a shining example

Of commitment

It doesn’t just happen

By negligent living

Love is an action

Of giving, forgiving

It doesn’t just happen

Love’s tried and true grace

Is a gentle reflection

Of God’s face

It doesn’t just happen

But oh, its sweet worth

Is surely the most priceless

Beauty on earth

© Janet Martin

From my threshold of middle-age marriage I have a sudden fresher and deeper appreciation for these words;

Happy 49th Anniversary, Mom and Dad

Tomorrow is Mom and Dad’s 49^th Wedding Anniversary. I am so thankful for their shining example of faithfulness.

May God richly bless you with many more.

Till Death Doth Part (Wedding Anniversary Poem)

Till death doth part, love’s solemn vow

Pledged oft in untried youth

But it reveals endurance now

In silver-haloed truth

Till death doth part, only God sees

Life’s breadth beneath the sun

As hands join in love’s mysteries

Uniting two in One

Will you be faithful, tender, true

In sickness and in health,

To love and cherish all life through

The other to yourself?

No beauty passes love’s refrains

As life proves words once spoken

Midst smiles and tears love’s vow remains

A pure and priceless token

Till death doth part, oh who can know

When love’s vow must surrender?

As one is called upon to go

Thus severing cords so tender

Till death doth part, oh may it be

And never our undoing

Then oh, what joyful victory

Will comfort teardrops flowing

Name and Name, God bless you

We thank-you Father, Mother

For showing love faithful and true

And always, to each other

Till death doth part, love’s solemn vow

Pledged oft in untried youth

But you reveal its beauty now

In silver-haloed truth

© Janet Martin~

Written for my sister's in-law's who are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary in March, Lord willing.