The Love of My Life....

       Thanks be to Him for His Unspeakable Gift!

It was on this day, 26 years ago, that the sun broke, bright and glorious...A day that will always be etched in my memory and on my heart. It was the day that I would marry the love of my life!

Now, in all honesty, I must confess that I had been married before and truly made a mess of my former marriage and failed to keep the commitment that I had made before God and family. But fortunately, we serve a forgiving and truly loving God. It was through His grace that I found the woman that God had ordained for me and a life of second chances began on this day.

My wife, Teresa Zoe Lee, is indeed an incredible woman with talents too many to list; however, her greatest passion, re-discovered when we met, was her love for the Lord....and since that time, she has been a tried and tested believer who has loved her family and her husband. In these years since our nuptials,  she has loved her God and sought to serve Him with her beautiful voice and her sweet and loving acts of kindness which she bestows on everyone she meets.

And as a recipient  of that wonderful love and devotion for the last 26 years, I have come to know full well the Scripture in Genesis that reads, "Therefore a man shall leave his mother and father and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Trust me; we have had many reasons to hold fast to each other and God has blessed us through everyone.

It is sad that for so many of us, it takes a special holiday or anniversary for us to tell the ones we love exactly how much we love them, appreciate them and believe in them. It is indeed a criticism of our culture that we are so busy "doing, going, being" that we let the times to show our love and appreciation slip away until it is too late to say the most important things that never get said, like..."I love you...I need you...I appreciate you...and I can't imagine my life without you!'

So, for me today, and in fact every day, I never tire of telling my beautiful, marvelous, wonderful, incredibly selfless wife that she is "THE LOVE OF MY LIFE"...  and I try to remember to thank God each day for our union, 26 years ago today, in the parlor of the John Rutledge House Inn in Charleston, SC at 5:30 PM in front of our families and friends when we both promised to love, honor and cherish each other as long as God gave us breath...it is a promise I gladly made and one I have honored each day of these past 26 years...and if Jesus tarries, I hope that we will celebrate our 50th anniversary  on February 24, 2040...after all, I will only be 90 and still in love with my wife...for she is the best thing that's ever happened to me and my greatest earthly joy will be remembering this day...the day I married the love of my life.

Blessed by My Gracious God with an Everlasting Love...Now and Eternally,

WPQ

Poem for the day:

If I had it to do all over again...

 I choose you to be my wife

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    MY BEST FRIEND!!!!!