(That is NOT Greta Garbo in the sunglasses. The sunglasses are another tale.)
“Life is a journey,” they say. Life is about the choices we make. Life is about enJOYing the journey. Life is about being thankful for what you have. Life is about seeing people, places and things as GOD wants us to see them with ‘fresh eyes.’ Life is in the end is a GIFT from our Creator. So ‘Capri Diem’ – “This is the day the Lord has made; We will be glad and rejoice in it.” – Psalm 118:24
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Here is what CS Lewis has to say about ‘Being in Love and Marriage.’
If the old fairy-tale ending ‘They lived happily ever after’ is taken to mean ‘They felt for the next fifty years exactly as they felt the day before they were married’, then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true, and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that excitement for even five years? What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, your friendships? But, of course, ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense—love as distinct from ‘being in love’—is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be ‘in love’ with someone else. ‘Being in love’ first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.
—from Mere Christianity
Our Anniversary Gift to each other was to Celebrate with the whole family in Montana. A grand time was had by all. I was born in Great Falls, Montana. We moved to Florida when I was four and a half. Jan and I both LOVE the west so it was special. I will be adding more about our trip to Montana so stay tuned…
DKS
enJOY your Journey…
Congradulations. Our 46th Anniversary is August 21st. Something strange will happen that day concerning the moon and the sun. Also I have a Fraternal Order of Police dinner meeting that night in Buna Vista, VA . So we will do lunch together at the Bistro in Lexington VA. And on the following Thursday we are leaving for Washington DC for a four day USAF Security Forces Assn meeting to included an Anniversary dinner cruise on the Potomac River., tour of Air Force One and tour of the Security Forces Squadron at Andrews AFB, MD and of course a golf tournament and pistol shoot tournament and various military briefings and a Saturday banquet. We will pass on the bus tour of DC and it’s associated Evening tour of DC mounaments. However we do have reservations for the new Smithsonian African Museum of History & Culture.