Honeymoon Ruthie, Trafalgar Square, London
I am away for the day so this Lion Lamb blog entry will be brief. Today marks our 50th wedding anniversary, which when I see it on the page seems hard to believe. We're off enjoying ourselves as a couple with a larger celebration to come.
I have spent all these decades with the remarkable Ruth, a loving, courageous, generous, and kind person. And certainly patient, given her partner. At times we both wonder how we've made it, engaged in our late teens, married in our early twenties. These relationships aren't supposed to last, are they? What did we know about life back then, two pleasantly impoverished and naive kids?
Ruth has been the rock of our family through the years in different communities in various provinces, keeping us all together, figuring it all out, when I was often off tending to the spiritual needs of other people. But she has never been "rocky" in outlook or demeanour. She's a person who many have turned to intuitively for support and counsel. She's always seemed to do this with effortless grace.
She is adored by her four grandchildren and lovingly respected by her three children and their partners. She is admired and trusted by friends, a confidant to her siblings.
Lately we've pondered whether we're lucky in different aspects of our life, even though there have been plenty of ups and downs, sorrows and joys. From Christian homes, we were both brought us to count our blessings rather than claim luck but we now figure life is both.
God willing, we'll continue to laugh together, explore together, sometimes cry together, and pray together for a while yet.
I'm a lucky guy and blessed.
Thank you, thank you Ruth, and much love for the days ahead.
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