My parents have celebrated Valentine’s Day sixty-two times: once as a dating couple and sixty-one times as a married couple! After all those years of marriage, they still celebrate three anniversaries every year: their first date, their engagement, and their wedding. Their very real, God-centered love is secure, long-lasting, and still growing!
On this Valentine’s Day, I celebrate their love and thank them for the two greatest gifts they have given to my siblings and me: their love for God and their love for one another!
This was their wedding picture from December 8, 1951.
Embedded is a more recent picture from one
of their frequent hand-in-hand walks.
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I Corinthians 13:4-8, NLT
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!______________
Happy Valentine’s Day!
how wonderful to have had such a godly heritage.
What a loving and precious gift they have given to you. We honor and celebrate the faithfulness of your parents. Praise God for such a Godly heritage.