Forty-Five Years

  There is something about love that passes understanding.  If love is engaged only in the mind it is weak and undeserving of being called love.  Our minds might hold on to love for a time, but they are equally good at reasoning why not to love.  Love must pass the mind to penetrate the heart.  There is no reasoning that can explain why Jim and I have remained married and in love for these past forty-five years. 

  We are opposites in nearly everything and both of us are rather stubborn about it.We have learned to embrace and encourage each others differences; to yield our own desires for the sake of the other; to laugh at ourselves and with each other; to remain determined to see our marriage vows through to the end.

Love is strange.  There are times of tenderness that are heartwarming beyond description  And times also when we were just too stubborn to give up.  I still think it was worthwhile.  I am willing to go another day with this man.

If he asked me to marry him again and I could look back over all these years, I would still say yes.

Proverbs 30:18-19d  There are three things which are too wonderful to me.  Yes, four that I do not understand....The way of a man with a virgin.

Ephesians 3:19a ....to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge.