33 Years!!!!
Today is our 33rd anniversary. I figure we are about half way through our earthly marriage, which gives one pause for thought:
1. The season of raising children is just a short span of your marriage on earth.
2. The long season is being grandparents and great-grandparents. We'd like to be good friends with every one of them.
3. We have a long time left to live and work and accomplish things together.
4. What will we do with that time????
5. We have been really blessed with resources to use to serve others during that time.
6. The past 33 years seem so long that it is amazing to think there are another 33 years.
7. Hopefully we have a bit of wisdom now.
8. That means the best is yet to come.
9. There will be trials and aches and pains.
10. But we will have each other and a wonderful posterity to help us through them.
11. In the next 33 years some scary things may happen in the world.
12. But won't it be fun to watch the Lord's kingdom grow and be a part of that.
13. It may become hard to hear each other - we are already half deaf. I hope we endure that with kindness.
14. We also may develop some of the frailties we see in our parents now. We hope that medical science will soon find better ways to cure them.
15. At the end of 33 years we will be ready for the retirement home. We hope that having such a large posterity, people will visit us as often as we try to visit our parents.
16. As we look back on a long life, may we be satisfied with our service and our progress, and be ready to meet the Lord with joy.
17. May we be as humble and grateful and kind as many of the old folks we know now.
18. May we never stop learning and doing.
19. When we get to the retirement home, may we finally have time to do all the fun projects we never had time for when we were busy serving.
20. And mostly, we hope that we can live in such a way that our posterity will have an example and a record of righteousness.
21. May we continue to keep our covenants, and love one another as God loves us.
22. If we give our lives over to the Lord, the next 33 years will have more surprises than we can comprehend. It will be fun to discover them together.
1. The season of raising children is just a short span of your marriage on earth.
2. The long season is being grandparents and great-grandparents. We'd like to be good friends with every one of them.
3. We have a long time left to live and work and accomplish things together.
4. What will we do with that time????
5. We have been really blessed with resources to use to serve others during that time.
6. The past 33 years seem so long that it is amazing to think there are another 33 years.
7. Hopefully we have a bit of wisdom now.
8. That means the best is yet to come.
9. There will be trials and aches and pains.
10. But we will have each other and a wonderful posterity to help us through them.
11. In the next 33 years some scary things may happen in the world.
12. But won't it be fun to watch the Lord's kingdom grow and be a part of that.
13. It may become hard to hear each other - we are already half deaf. I hope we endure that with kindness.
14. We also may develop some of the frailties we see in our parents now. We hope that medical science will soon find better ways to cure them.
15. At the end of 33 years we will be ready for the retirement home. We hope that having such a large posterity, people will visit us as often as we try to visit our parents.
16. As we look back on a long life, may we be satisfied with our service and our progress, and be ready to meet the Lord with joy.
17. May we be as humble and grateful and kind as many of the old folks we know now.
18. May we never stop learning and doing.
19. When we get to the retirement home, may we finally have time to do all the fun projects we never had time for when we were busy serving.
20. And mostly, we hope that we can live in such a way that our posterity will have an example and a record of righteousness.
21. May we continue to keep our covenants, and love one another as God loves us.
22. If we give our lives over to the Lord, the next 33 years will have more surprises than we can comprehend. It will be fun to discover them together.
posted by Mom and Dad at 10:27 AM
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