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Day 18: Joyful Love

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Today is our 41st wedding anniversary,

and it feels like yesterday

when I first met him.

I LOVE my MAN.

And I mean I REALLY LOVE my MAN.

From the moment I met him

45 years ago

in

the cafeteria at Ursinus College,

I knew he was the one.

Was it because he was woking in the dish room

wearing a red apron?

Maybe so.

Because that is my man.

Ready to put on the apron

and clean the dishes.

He is a behind the scenes kind of a man.

A HUMBLE man.

A man who LOVES like no other.

HOYT doesn't even have to say a word,

and things happen.

GOD explodes through his being,

because he is

a HUMBLE servant

who wears an apron.

He walks the talk.

He wears

HUMILITY wherever GOD has him show up.

He FOLLOWS JESUS.

He TRUSTS IN THE LORD. 

He CASTS HIS CARES UPON THE LORD.

He LOVES ONE ANOTHER AS JESUS LOVES.

So why am I getting all gushy and mushy.  

Because I am blown away by the

GRACE of GOD

who

entered into out marriage

so that we are YOKED together IN CHRIST.

We get to SHARE JESUS together.

Where would our marriage be without CHRIST.

It would be

WITHOUT

a LOVE

that is so PATIENT,

so KIND,

so does not ENVY,

so not PROUD,

so not DISHONORING,

so not SELF-SEEKING,

so not EASILY ANGERED,

so not KEEPING A RECORD OF WRONGS,

&

so does not DELIGHT IN EVIL,

because

Hoyt's LOVE

for me is

a LOVE that

he LIVES out

because

he RECEIVED the LOVE 

of JESUS into his heart.

So on this day

my heart is overwhelmed with a

JOY,

not only because

GOD GRACED me with HOYT to be my husband,

but because

we

have embraced the

LOVE OF JESUS

that continues to have us

press forward daily

to do life

GOD'S WAY.

Happy Anniversary to my man.

Thank you for

"STANDING BY ME"

(listen to the song below)



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