Sunday, October 2, 2016

The Great Investment


Forty years today of walking alongside.  We’ve built a relationship, a family, made a home, contributed to a community.  We have birthed, nourished, and nurtured.  We have worked together and independently, at our jobs, in our home.  We’ve played…music, art, expressions of worship, explorations of rock walls (several kinds) and craft stores and thrift shops, and supported each other’s crazy ideas and entrepreneurial efforts (several kinds here too).  We’ve laughed and we’ve cried.  We’ve made plenty of mistakes; we are certainly still learning.   We’ve not always gotten our way—it’s a lesson of sharing and compromise and figuring out what love looks like and how in the world you do it.  We have loved, and we have hurt; we’ve forgiven, and been forgiven.  We are grateful for the adventure.  Its twists and turns haven’t ended and we don’t expect them to.  And most importantly, we’ve seen God’s faithfulness to us through the sunshine and the storms.  There is so much to be thankful for.

 

Photograph from morguefile.com by hotblack

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