Golden!

This weekend my folks will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. How awesome is that?!?!? Fifty years is a long time to spend with somebody. Heck, sometimes 50 minutes can be a long time to spend with a person. This afternoon as I was perusing anniversary cards trying to find just the right one I had a revelation. My parents are celebrating their "golden" anniversary. How precious and valuable is gold! What a perfect description for an anniversary such as this one. And from my point of view, when it comes to marriage and my parents....nailed it. It's not just that they've been married for 50 years. It's the way that they have spent the past fifty years together...in love, faithfulness, generosity, peace, laughter, gentleness, and devotion. The list could go on and on. I don't want to make it sound like I think my parents are perfect. They're not (sorry mom and dad, you're the ones who taught me Romans 3:23). But my mom and dad are pretty amazing people, and together they have built a beautiful life, loving one another and loving God.

I love you, mom and dad. Happy Golden Anniversary!

Love is patient,

Love is kind.

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

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

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

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

It always protects,

always trusts,

 

always hopes,

always perseveres.

Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a