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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.
Thank you, Bernadette❣
Beautifully written and heartfelt. Many congratulations! I would have clocked up 40 years with my lovely hubby next month. How the years fly by!
Thank you so much, Lynn. 🧡
I love how you describe your marriage. Happy anniversary to you and Trudy!!
Aww, bless you, Liz❣
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.
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Blessings to you both!
Thank you, Joy❣
Beautifully written. Happy anniversary!
Thank you so much, Tracy!
Congratulations! Every anniversary is special.
They are, and thank you, Lynn!
Congratulations! Wishing you both many more anniversaries filled with love and joy. 💖
Aw, bless you, Sandy. 🧡
Happy Anniversary!
Thank you, Jean❣
Congratulations to you both! And blessings.🌷🌷
Thank you, Carol❣
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
;>) Rock on, brother!
Congrats are certainly in order. I second all the previous comments. God bless you both.
Thanks, Christopher!
Congrats. Jim and I celebrated #41 July of this year!
Congrats, Sue. ’85 forever❣
Yes! One of the songs at our wedding was’ ‘I won’t last a day without you.’ And we still don’t know how to make it without each other. Praying that we can either go together. Or be raptured holding hands all the way up!
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Wow, huge congratulations!! May you both continue to navigate your good fortune!🧡
Thank you, Renate! 🧡
Happy anniversary, Mitch! Congratulations on celebrating your 41st anniversary with the love of your life. 🙂
Thank you so much, Nancy. 🧡
Congrats!
Thanks, Mary!
Sweet. Congratulations
Thank you, Debby.
Happy Anniversary! Congratulations!
Thank you, David!
Happy Anniversary & Blessings!
Thank you, T❣
My pleasure.
That is very sweet, that phase of the moon in our household, recall the maxi moon as that is the peace of the moon our son was born
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Congratulations! My husband and I will celebrate 40 next year! What a blessing! God is good.
He is indeed, Beth, and happy 40th-to-be❣
Fantastic! Congratulations!
Thank you, Christopher!
Congrats, my brother separated at birth! We just celebrated our 37th in August, so we are hurrying, trying to catch up!😄
❤️🙏🤠
P.S. I’m stealing your sky watch idea for next year’s homemade Anniversary card! Don’t tell Anita! 😂
Pinky promise.
Well… ;>) Thanks, C.A.!
Congratulations Mitch and Trudy for 41 years of marriage!
Thank you so much, Hazel!
My pleasure, Mitch!
Happy Anniversary!
Thank you! (May I ask your name, btw?)
Congratulations to you and Trudy.
Thank you, dear Kathy.
Wonderful joy for Trudy and you. 😊
Thank you, Tom!
Thanks, Mitch, for me reminding me of the unique experience I have of beauty in all its shades, that leads to pause, appreciate more fully, then to awe and wonder…
Congratulations to you both!
Thank you, other Trudy! ;>)
Happy Anniversary to both of you! You’ve expressed your feelings in a most poignant and powerful way, Mitch.
Thank you, Terry. 🧡
Happy Anniversary and many more years of love!
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;>) Thanks, Rasma!
Your marriage of 41 years is a unique treasure, as is mine of 59 years. God has blessed us both.
He has indeed, Russell. 59, wow!
Beautifilly said Mitch
Thank you, Matt.
Congratulations Mitch and Trudy. Forty one years is relationship goals. Many blessings!
Thank you, Iba. 🧡
A beautiful, most lovely post, Mitch. Congratulations to you both! Glory!!
Thank you, Mitzy. 🧡
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Beautiful, my friend! Happy Anniversary!
Thank you, Nikki! 🧡
You’re welcome ❤️
Happy, blessed Anniversary!
Thank you, Leo & Nina! 🧡
Happy anniversary! A beautiful tribute!
Thank you, Rosie. 🧡
Happy anniversary! Keep loving the sky and Trudy! Thanks for sharing a way of embracing change.
My privilege, and thank you, Robert!
Love this! Congratulations to you and Trudy 🤗❤️🎉
Thank you, Lisa. 🧡
beautiful! congratulations on 41 years and i can tell it will be much longer.
Oh, yes. And thank you, Virginia. 🧡
That’s lovely, Mitch. Wishing you and your wife scores more happy anniversaries—in good health.
Thank you, Annie.
A buautiful tribute to you both.
Thanks, Geoff.
Happy Anniversary to you all! That is soooo awesome.
Happy Anniversary. 💐
Thank you, Lynette. 🧡
Happy anniversary, Mitch. What a lovely post.
Thank you so much, Lori. 🧡
You are welcome!
That detail about the crescent moon framed in the diamond of zelkova branches really struck a chord with me. It is so easy to try and capture those fleeting moments on a phone screen, only to realize the real gift was just being there to notice it in the first place.
Congratulations to you and Trudy on forty-one years together. Looking down at someone you love after all those decades and still seeing a brand new masterpiece is a wonderful way to view a shared life. Thank you for sharing such a quiet, thoughtful reminder to pay attention to the good things right in front of us.
Thank you, Dan, and right you are.
Wow.
A perfect love poem!
Why, thank you, Joan!
Congratulations on 41 years to you both!
Thank you, Peggy!