It seems that, while attending his church’s “Marriage Marathon” weekend, an old man named Pete was actually soon to celebrate his very own 50th wedding anniversary. The minister in charge asked him to take a few minutes and share some insight into how he had managed to maintain his marriage with the same woman for all these years.
Pete replied to the audience, “Well, I treated her with respect, spent money on her, but mostly I took her traveling on special occasions.” The minister inquired, “Trips to where?” “Well, for our 25th anniversary, I took her to Beijing.”
The minister then said, “What a terrific example you are to all husbands, Pete. Please tell the audience what you’re going to do for your wife on your 50th anniversary.” “I guess I’m going back to get her.”
As I write this, my wife and I are barely a week away from our 41st wedding anniversary. Any way you look at it, that is much closer to our 50th wedding anniversary than it is to our 25th wedding anniversary. More to the point, back when my wife and I celebrated our silver wedding anniversary, neither she nor I deposited and abandoned the other anywhere other than our humble abode.
And for this reason, should the Lord tarry and our golden anniversary eventually roll around, neither of us will have to retrieve the other, or, for that matter, even go looking for the other.
In the King James Translation of the Old Testament Book of Proverbs, chapter 18, verse 22, we read: “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.” The Amplified Version translates this verse as: “He who finds a true and faithful wife finds a good thing…”
I myself will amplify this! On June 11, 1983, I found myself the recipient of a true and faithful wife! I praise God for the day I first laid eyes upon her, for every single day I have viewed her since, and for the hope I have for every single day I will behold her henceforth into the future.
You see, she is clearly the “better half” of our relationship. Little wonder, therefore, that I see her as such a blessing given to me by the Lord.
I say this because, from the very beginning in our relationship, my precious wife has been for me “a (very) good thing”! For that, I am now and always will be thankful. For that as well, I am also compelled to do my very best to insure that she will always have the same testimony in the future in regard to me as her husband that I continue to have for her as my wife!
After all, most couples who make it to their 50th anniversary and beyond usually do so, not because one spouse has been left by the other in a foreign country for the past twenty-five years, but rather because each spouse has spent that time considering (and treating their partner as) “the better half”!
JOKE SOURCE:
https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/66830.pdf.
SEE ALSO:
https://www.charmsoflight.com/anniversary-gemstones.
SCRIPTURE SOURCE:
https://biblehub.com/proverbs/18-22.htm.
Pete replied to the audience, “Well, I treated her with respect, spent money on her, but mostly I took her traveling on special occasions.” The minister inquired, “Trips to where?” “Well, for our 25th anniversary, I took her to Beijing.”
The minister then said, “What a terrific example you are to all husbands, Pete. Please tell the audience what you’re going to do for your wife on your 50th anniversary.” “I guess I’m going back to get her.”
As I write this, my wife and I are barely a week away from our 41st wedding anniversary. Any way you look at it, that is much closer to our 50th wedding anniversary than it is to our 25th wedding anniversary. More to the point, back when my wife and I celebrated our silver wedding anniversary, neither she nor I deposited and abandoned the other anywhere other than our humble abode.
And for this reason, should the Lord tarry and our golden anniversary eventually roll around, neither of us will have to retrieve the other, or, for that matter, even go looking for the other.
In the King James Translation of the Old Testament Book of Proverbs, chapter 18, verse 22, we read: “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.” The Amplified Version translates this verse as: “He who finds a true and faithful wife finds a good thing…”
I myself will amplify this! On June 11, 1983, I found myself the recipient of a true and faithful wife! I praise God for the day I first laid eyes upon her, for every single day I have viewed her since, and for the hope I have for every single day I will behold her henceforth into the future.
You see, she is clearly the “better half” of our relationship. Little wonder, therefore, that I see her as such a blessing given to me by the Lord.
I say this because, from the very beginning in our relationship, my precious wife has been for me “a (very) good thing”! For that, I am now and always will be thankful. For that as well, I am also compelled to do my very best to insure that she will always have the same testimony in the future in regard to me as her husband that I continue to have for her as my wife!
After all, most couples who make it to their 50th anniversary and beyond usually do so, not because one spouse has been left by the other in a foreign country for the past twenty-five years, but rather because each spouse has spent that time considering (and treating their partner as) “the better half”!
JOKE SOURCE:
https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/66830.pdf.
SEE ALSO:
https://www.charmsoflight.com/anniversary-gemstones.
SCRIPTURE SOURCE:
https://biblehub.com/proverbs/18-22.htm.