leafed in Family

~Patchwork Marriage~

I go my marriage out today

to look at it again.

I haddn't looked in quite a spell ~

Just do it now and then.

It's so much like a patchwork quilt.

With patches not a few!

Some patches large, some patches small,

Some patches old, some patches new.

Each patch brings back a memory

Some unkind word or deed.

By which we've learned to give and take,

And love with greater heed.

I pray the day will never come

When we take it out no longer.

For it seems that where the patches are,

The fabric is much stronger.

I do not kow where this came from. I found it and it was a blessing to me.