I know. I know. I look exactly like my mom. But what I'd actually like to point out is all that HAIR my dad has!!This one is one of my favorite pictures from their wedding because I guess I just never expected this sort of photography that many years ago. The whole soft glow thing....very cool.
I would have posted this last night...but I was knee-deep in a typical Bekah overbooked night. I finally had to quit doing chores because I'd run out of room to write them in the day planner so I could proceed to cross them out as completed. (Oh come on - at least one of you does that!)
Anyway, yesterday was my parents' anniversary. Fifty-four years. I think it's great. Fifty-four years is milestone enough to celebrate with much thankfulness but not milestone enough to require a party. :D (I think my sisters and I are still recovering from the fiftieth shindig we threw.)
I shared in devotions at work that I'm very thankful for their long-standing marriage, though. It's given me many good examples of how to work hard and keep going even when it's tough. I know they don't' always see eye to eye on things, but I appreciate their determination to not let those things drive them apart.
Given that I did NOT get married at seventeen like my mom did, chances are, I'll never see the same length of marriage (and if I do, I'll probably be too out of my mind to know I've arrived) but I hope that if I ever do get married, I can enjoy a good long life with my husband!
So even though I'm a day late, congratulations, Mom and Dad! Love you!
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Ooh! Your parents got married the same year mine did! Theirs lasted 50 years before my dad passed away.
You can take heart. One year on Focus on the Family, they asked for people with "long" marriages to call in and leave a message giving their secret for their marriage. Then they played a tape with a bunch of them.
One couple said they had been married for 80 years. She was 101 and he was 103, and they lived together in a nursing home. Their secret? They recited John 3:16 together.
You've still got plenty of time for a long marriage!
Bekah,
Honoring one's parents and their marriage is something I admire.
I married later than age 17. Contrary to popular belief, getting married in your 20's and 30's is NOT the end of the world..chuckle. Sure, I dated and all, but...I waited. What I kept in mind was "Why settle for Ishmael when Isaac's on the way?"
In fact, it came to the point that I decided being single for life wasn't such a bad thing. It could be a GOOD thing. I left it all in G-d's hands and whatever He wanted for me, I'd follow.
When I met my hubby, most of my ideas about what I wanted in a mate went out the window. G-d gave me the person I needed, not the facade I thought I wanted. My husband is BETTER than I imagined possible.
G-d's got His best in store for you.
On a different note: I hope to be like Moses and still have my faculties about me regardless of my age :-)
Skyepuppy - Wow - the same year!?! That's awesome!
101 and 103 and still going - very impressive. I read marriage books a lot and one I read just recently mentioned that the bride's mom challenged the groom (on the wedding day) to pray with his wife every night before bed. She said he took it to heart and that became one of the foundations of their success in marriage. I definitely believe that being yoked in Bible study and prayer is HUGE.
Tsofah - It has been a long long time (too long) since I reminded myself of the Isaac/Ishmael thing. I'm glad you brought it up. I needed to remember. I have often prayed for God to bring the person HE knows I need (now and in however many years) rather than the person I THINK I need. Of course those prayers usually only happen in the extra logical moments...which are not as plentiful for me as I wish.
But I think I'm with you in hoping to have all my faculties even at the end. Although do I want to know I'm that old? Maybe ignorance IS bliss. LOL. (My sister just got a job working with the elderly. I guess I'll just judge from her stories which is best.)
Wedding dresses sure have changed since then!
My daughter's friend (the one I help with boyfriend-trouble advice) came over a few months ago to use my computer to try to find a wedding dress (he hasn't proposed, but she wanted to be ready). There are NO modest wedding dresses! They're all either strapless, halter, or spaghetti-strapped. If you want sleeves, they'll sew on some generic lace sleeves that look... sewn on. Your mom's dress would never make it to today's weddings.
But that's OK, because she looked beautiful!
that's so cute!
Skyepuppy - I tried to write this to you twice the other day and I kept losing it. :( I definitely have noticed that if you don't have a strapless gown body - you're in BIG BIG TROUBLE. I went ahead and started pondering that issue because I figured by the time it mattered to me for real, I might have a solution. I don't have one yet. And I cannot wear a long sleeved dress even if they made them, because I'd be so blasted hot. It is, as my supervisor says, a connundrum.
Sarah - :) yep they sure were! (are?)
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