Today is our wedding anniversary. We are celebrating 35 years of a blessed (not perfect) marriage. We plan to spend our day together and share faith, hope, and love. I can think of no more priceless ingredients in our marriage recipe.

I thank God for my beloved. He is my love, my joy, and my blessing. How grateful I am for him! I am learning not to take our love or a day together for granted. I am realizing more and more that each day I spend with him is a precious gift.

Our lives are different now but still filled with those God-given gifts of faith, hope, and love. Those aspects of our marriage did not originate in us but from the One who joined us together and blessed us so richly. From The Holy Bible we learn that of faith, hope, and love, the greatest is love.

”But now faith, hope, and love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.“  (First Corinthians 13:13)

”What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”  (Mark 10:9)

”This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”  (Psalm 118:24)