Today Jewel and I celebrated 32 years of marriage. It was fun to share a French Baguette and a little cheese. It reminded me of the day I proposed to Jewel at a little picnic on the French side of the Alps.
As a husband and wife, in the midst of our current reality, we have so much for which to be thankful. We recognize that our love for each other finds its foundation in God’s character.
And where do we go to discover God’s character? We go to His Word. God’s character is revealed through His commandments. And our love for God is demonstrated through our obedience to them. Our obedience shows that we trust Him to know what is best.
“He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him:(John 14:21).
We can rejoice in knowing that when we love Jesus He delights in opening His heart to us. And when we do this He reveals His love to us and through us.
As we look back on our journey together we recognize that some of anniversaries stand out more than others. For our thirtieth anniversary we were blessed to be standing at the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of South Africa. Or there was what we thought was our twenty-fifth anniversary in Australia. (We discovered it was not our twenty-fifth but our twenty-forth. I am so glad we both got it wrong.) Then there was our first anniversary. We were living in the Caribbean where I came down with a terrible case of typhoid from which I almost died. Jewel gently helped nurse me back to health. Certainly our latest anniversary will be etched on hearts and minds.
We look back at all the valleys and hilltops, the twist and turns of life together. Through it all we see God’s faithfulness and grace. In spite of all our weaknesses and failings we can say that our love for God and love for each other has deepened and grown. And while we don’t like to admit it, a lot of the growth has taken place in the tough times. It’s funny how that works isn’t it?
Yours on the Journey,
Geoff
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