Photo by Ashwini Chaudhary
Forty-One Years Ago This Week
I love the way the sky is always changing, never exactly the same, sometimes subtly different, sometimes breathtakingly so. One night in particular, the moon was a shimmering crescent cradled by a perfectly formed diamond of zelkova branches. It was one of the loveliest, most magical works of art I’ve ever seen.
And then it struck me: “No one else on earth has ever seen this masterpiece, or ever will. It was made just now, just for me.” I tried to capture it with my phone, but digital light sensors can’t see magic. It was as if God were saying, “No, this is only for you.”
A short time later, as I reached to turn off my bedside lamp, I looked down at my wife’s beautiful, peaceful face, framed perfectly by soft folds of bedcovers. And I thought, “No one else on earth has ever seen this masterpiece, either. This too was made just for me.”
As of this week, Trudy and I have been married forty-one years. And I’m continually grateful for the ever-changing sky that is our marriage. No one else has ever lived the life we have together, and no one else ever will. It’s a constantly changing masterpiece…
Made just for us.
Congratulations on your Forty-one!
Blessings to you I give to you both. Enjoy your days in health and happiness.
Beautifully written and heartfelt. Many congratulations! I would have clocked up 40 years with my lovely hubby next month. How the years fly by!
I love how you describe your marriage. Happy anniversary to you and Trudy!!
Yes, it is a gift to have experienced real love with our spouses for many years, and enjoy now and the years to come. I look back thankfully to those years and keep them firmly in my heart.
Blessings to you both!
Beautifully written. Happy anniversary!
Congratulations! Every anniversary is special.
Congratulations! Wishing you both many more anniversaries filled with love and joy. 💖
Happy Anniversary!
Congratulations to you both! And blessings.🌷🌷
Congratulations!!! 1985 was a great year to get married – 7/27/85 here
the best relational gift this side of glory … I was just a 20yr old kid that looked 15… I told her that if she ever left me I was going WITH her… in it for life