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11 yr.ago

visioncgbc | November 09, 2007 10:46

Well today is my 11 yr. date anniversary.  Don't think I'm all romantic for remembering.  It's the day after Adam's birthday-every year!  I was in the choir and we were having a cook-out or something, I can't remember exactly.  But, I think we were supposed to dress up like a cowboy if I'm remembering correctly.  But, I'd had my eye on that Mark Pasour.  You know it didn't matter how much I  batted my eyes at him-nothing!  So, finally I just called on election night, '96. He was baking Adam cupcakes (in ice-cream cones) for his birthday. We talked for along time.  Neither of us were exactly sure of the other's age.  Ten years we discovered, but eleven years later anyone knows that he acts twenty years younger than me!  They day of the cook-out, it rained it out.  Was that divine intervention or what?!Wink

We went to a movie and had dinner.  We found out our kids were exactly one year apart in age.  That was Nov. 9th '96.  April 26th, '97, we were married.  You know at the time it seemed completely normal.  Now being a bit older, I just wonder how many people were thinking "Are they crazy?".

We're going on an "anniversary date" tomorrow.  The actual day is today, but I knew I'd be so tired by 5:00.  So, we're going to go the Southern Christmas Show tomorrow.  That's right ladies, eat your hearts out-my husband is going to go with me to the Southern Christmas Show!  Now that's love! 

I'm definitely thankful to God for Mark and our marriage.  We have been through alot, and are still going through alot, but I know that God is with us, and it's gonna all work out. 

I'm working on a co-write for a song that's about marriage.  We've been looking at I Corinthians 13 to sort of shape the song.  When I read that I realize love and what most people's ideas of love are, are wrong.  I want to challenge myself to see the truth, and live it.

 The Way of Love

 1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

   Love never gives up.
   Love cares more for others than for self.
   Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
   Love doesn't strut,
   Doesn't have a swelled head,
   Doesn't force itself on others,
   Isn't always "me first,"
   Doesn't fly off the handle,
   Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
   Doesn't revel when others grovel,
   Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
   Puts up with anything,
   Trusts God always,
   Always looks for the best,
   Never looks back,
   But keeps going to the end.

 8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

 11When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

 12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

 13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

 

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