
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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