40 years together, married and best friends...my hubby and me. He took me to Hilton Head for a week of celebration and memory sharing of our past 42 years of knowing each other. When we came home he announced one more special 'gift'. Extending the celebration into a full year of celebrating!! What? Can this be?
Yes, so for the weeks since May 16th my wonderful, dear, kind, loving husband has written me love notes 5 days a week. He said he wants to do this for 40 weeks....we are in week 24! YES! Notes left on my bed table or on my pillow each night. All kinds....some make me cry. Some make me laugh. Some make me blush. Some make me smile. ALL make me glad I am married to this man!
I asked and received permission to share one today. Not all of it, just partial.....hey.....you can fill in the blanks, I am sure!
On the front of this computer generated card is a small picture of a garden with two small ducks sitting really close together (real) and under that picture is:
Happy 40th Anniversary
Week Twenty Four
Card Three
I open it and read ~
Love' Philosophy
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle-
Why not I with thine?
See the mountains kiss high Heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea-
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?
"What would life be like without your sweet kisses and if our lives were not mingled together."
~ Dave
Romantic! (He has acquired this trait over the years ~ he wasn't romantic when we were first married......there is HOPE!!!)
He is the kind of husband every woman would ask God for if she was wise enough to ask HIM!
Deserved not am I.....it is only God' precious Grace given to me ~ how I thank HIM!
My heart is so FULL ~ Sherry Lynette
PS. I am writing him notes too....just not as eloquent or as often ~
Question of the day ~
Do you keep a journal?
What do you write in it?
I do keep a journal, and have kept one off and on for 12 years, and nearly everyday for 6. I write everything in there - the happenings of the day, the things I felt, the ways God showed up. Prayers. Funny moments. Notes from Sunday school, church, and Bible study. Verses. Small group preparation. Whatever flows onto the paper from my heart . . . .
ReplyDeleteJulie~ I wished I had begun writing at your age. I keep lots of lists in mine plus my 'musings' ~ things I am praying about, thinking about, questions I have and people who bless me and ways I see God in my everyday world. How beneficial all your journaling will be to your 'growth' as the days go by. No one sees this as they 'begin' but it is true! Keep journaling ~
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