Celebration of Marriage

Today would be my parents 39th wedding anniversary,but they divorced when I was five or six. Although it hurts they are not together I see it for what it is, a lesson. My parents both remarried within a couple of years to people they thought were better and more suited. They both divorced again, another lesson. My mom has never remarried but she had several lengthy relationships that were just another reminder of bad choices. My dad remarried a third time and he is still married to Alice, which I find is a Godsend. She has taught my Dad to smarten up and may be just the best choice for him. They have moments when he comes knocking on my door, moments were things seem to go really wrong , and he threatens divorce again.

The lesson I, my sister and brother have learned is divorce is just not option for us. Everyone laughs when I say it, but I totally mean it. Its death before divorce in our house and in our marriage. If I could share advice I would say 1. choose to work things out, it may take time but work it out, compromise, find common ground 2. give 100%. 3. Date always 4.Love always 5. Always forgive, even if it hurts. 6. Do not allow outside interferace no matter how well intentioned it is unless its a pastor or a godly counseller. 7. hold on to God no matter what and meditate on his promises.

I asked the ladies to think on

1 Corinthians 13

Love

¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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