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At the recent rehearsal dinner for our son and his fiancée, a few of us older folk injected one of their last hours of singleness with bits of wisdom learned gleaned through our own struggles in life. If you’ll indulge me, I’ll pass along a few personal musings that time didn’t allow that evening. —– Why have I bothered to save these check registers from our early marriage? For posterity, I suppose, should anyone actually be interested. The most remarkable of the four is the second, with checks dating from 9/21/68 through 5/26/69. In our last year of college then, I was 22 and Mary 21. Mighty young and naïve I'd [...] It hardly seems as seems as if our 37 years together have come and gone so quickly, but sifting through old pictures this past week convinces me that they have. My hair was once black, but what few locks that age and stress have permitted to remain are now decidedly gray. We were young and in [...] One question stabs many husbands with increasing intensity as the time draws near: what should I get my wife for her birthday? Not me. Every year my wife thoughtfully formulates a special request–whatever she pleases–for her birthday. Once she selflessly asked me to donate $100 to a favorite charity in her honor. Another year she desired [...] Embarrassing? Definitely. Humiliating? Without a doubt. But it happened just this way. It was the day before Valentine's Day, 1968. Newly married, they were struggling through college. She, the incurable romantic, hunched over the drawing board, toiling to create a giant-size king of hearts for her own King of Hearts. India ink was unforgiving. But her [...] It's Valentine's Day, and I'm thinking of the person my wife married in her youth. He was a young man. With a full head of dark hair, he was slim and trim and pretty strong for his size. With most of his life before him, he had enough enthusiasm to believe that any difficulty could eventually [...] "Thank you so much for the Bible; it will be something to remember you by in the future. The meal was delicious, too. Thank you for your prayers and visits, and may God truly bless each of you." "We want to thank you for our lovely coat rack. We love wood in the natural color that [...] The first time I saw kudzu vines, I was immediately impressed with their lush, green foliage. Those particular vines had been planted as a "simple" way to control erosion on the hillsides … but with some unforeseen results. They had gradually spread to encroach upon power poles, wires, billboards, and fences until nothing could stop [...] It only seems like yesterday And in excursions here and there The dreams we've had sometimes turned 'round |
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