Sticking Together

The Good News Today Is...we passed another landmark. Yesterday was our wedding anniversary, 28 years together. "'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.'" Mat 19:5-6. Now, I know that not every marriage can survive this long, and I count myself lucky that we have stuck together for the duration. I wasn't going to write about it but the Yahoo News headline today was about surprising marriage truths. The best part of the whole article was the last coupe of sentences. "That's the strange beauty of marriage: It's full of hard times and hard lessons that no one can ever prepare you for. But in the end, those are the things that give richness to your life together -- and make your love even deeper and stronger than when it began." This quote works for life in general, too. Hard times and hard lessons give richness to your life, even if you can't see that when you are in the midst of them. There is a plan - it will all work together for good.