50
(From our church's September 2014 Newsletter)
Dear Mom & Dad,
This month you will celebrate fifty years of marriage. Fifty years...that's like half a century! I don't know how you've done that when Mom maintains that she's only 29 years old, but nevertheless, fifty years it is. We are looking forward to celebrating with you at the end of the month, but first of all I wanted to say thank you.
Thank you for the example of faithfulness you have set before me and my family as well as Doug and his family. I'm sure it couldn't have always been easy to work through the things that life threw at you, but I never once heard you utter the word "divorce." Never once do I remember being afraid that our family wouldn't be together. You always told us you were in it for the long haul.
Thank you for the example you set of renewing your love for each other. I remember when you went to Marriage Encounter, and how you were committed to that process of dialoguing and continuing to grow closer together. You were so supportive when Cathy and I went to Engaged Encounter...especially since Mom maintains that she pointed me in Cathy's direction in the first place!
Thank you for teaching me the important things in life. Things like hard work, determination, and most of all, faith. Thank you for taking us to church, for being in the pews every time the doors were open. I never doubted that faith was integral to life. And I've always known God is real because I experienced his love first through both of you.
Thank you for loving my family. I remember on the day of our wedding, you bypassed me and celebrated finally having a girl in the family. And you were there when our kids were born. You made a "slight detour" to Muncie on your way to Kokomo to come see Christopher on the Sunday after his birth, even though you had just been there a few days before. You've been at everything they are in that you could be...even though we've never lived that close. Thank you.
And most of all, thank you for showing me a glimpse of what God's love is like by the way you love each other and the way you love me. Here's to the next fifty!
Love,
Dennis
Dear Mom & Dad,
This month you will celebrate fifty years of marriage. Fifty years...that's like half a century! I don't know how you've done that when Mom maintains that she's only 29 years old, but nevertheless, fifty years it is. We are looking forward to celebrating with you at the end of the month, but first of all I wanted to say thank you.
Thank you for the example of faithfulness you have set before me and my family as well as Doug and his family. I'm sure it couldn't have always been easy to work through the things that life threw at you, but I never once heard you utter the word "divorce." Never once do I remember being afraid that our family wouldn't be together. You always told us you were in it for the long haul.
Thank you for the example you set of renewing your love for each other. I remember when you went to Marriage Encounter, and how you were committed to that process of dialoguing and continuing to grow closer together. You were so supportive when Cathy and I went to Engaged Encounter...especially since Mom maintains that she pointed me in Cathy's direction in the first place!
Thank you for teaching me the important things in life. Things like hard work, determination, and most of all, faith. Thank you for taking us to church, for being in the pews every time the doors were open. I never doubted that faith was integral to life. And I've always known God is real because I experienced his love first through both of you.
Thank you for loving my family. I remember on the day of our wedding, you bypassed me and celebrated finally having a girl in the family. And you were there when our kids were born. You made a "slight detour" to Muncie on your way to Kokomo to come see Christopher on the Sunday after his birth, even though you had just been there a few days before. You've been at everything they are in that you could be...even though we've never lived that close. Thank you.
And most of all, thank you for showing me a glimpse of what God's love is like by the way you love each other and the way you love me. Here's to the next fifty!
Love,
Dennis
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