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Along with my four daughters, I have been drawn into the pursuit of reading Jane Austin's novels (again) and watching the myriad of film protrayals of them that have come out over the past 2-3 years. I have enjoyed reading the books; all of the films have not fared so well in my estimation. At least twice I have quit watching before the movie was over! I have been interested in some of the recent comments on the blogs I read,that in these novels and in much of today's thinking today marriage appears to be the end of adventure instead of the beginning of the most complex adventure that two people could ever experience. My husband and I have been married for more than 42 years. We have couples who live here in the long term care facility who have been married for 66 and 70 years. From my vantage point, and as an observer of these people who have been married so much longer than I have, I would like to say that some of the bad press that marriage gets needs to be expelled by those of us who have stayed committed to the promise, "till death do us part". Not in a "poor me I'm stuck for the rest of my life" but in a "see what God has done"! I fell in love with my husband when I was 17 years old. Just seeing him coming toward me across a campus took my breath away. Seeing him after being apart for a whole day still fills me with warmth and gladness. Being married has not always been easy for each of us but I can't imagine being without him. He makes me laugh almost every day and he surrounds me with security and love. He has truely been my spiritual leader. I have learned more about God from him than from any other single person in my life. He gives me hope because I have seen him struggle with areas of sin in his life and with God's help overcome them. He has been a wonderful father to our four daughters and I think that each of them went into marriage expecting their marriages to be good because of his influence in their lives. He is a good man. For me, marriage has been a wonderful, exciting, sometimes trying and disallusioning experience but one that has also been God's way of blessing me and teaching me to be the person He planned before the foundation of the world for me to be. Our wedding was not the end of the adventure but just the infantisimal beginning of a life long journey into what it truely means to become one with another person. |
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