“I Could Wish”: To This Man, On Our 29th Anniversary
I don’t know if any marriage is easy. I could wish it was, but I know ours is not.
But nothing worth having comes easy, I say—except grace.
I don’t know if any marriage is easy. I could wish it was, but I know ours is not.
But nothing worth having comes easy, I say—except grace.
Marriage is hard. And for that reason any still married marriage is worth celebrating. So on this, our 28th wedding anniversary, I am celebrating what I’ve learned—in threes.
Loves that last welcome frets and rubs. That’s how they rise to heaven. We all want that kind of forever-love, that everlasting, never-failing, ongoing sort of love. At the very least, we want to keep our love sweet. I mean more than married love here. I mean all the “natural” loves. But as C.S. Lewis…
Hurry! I think we can catch a ride if we run. So we cinched up our backpacks and raced to catch the Stanley Park bus. It offered, “free shuttle service around the park stopping at 14 popular locations.” The Rose Garden was close. Oh, and “the shuttle stops are easily identified.” Sure enough, right on…