29 years ago today I married my best friend and lover. I thank - TopicsExpress

29 years ago today I married my best friend and lover. I thank God we learned the meaning of and experienced real love that comes from Him before we made that commitment and realized it wasnt just the passion we had when we met but that it would be a lifelong commitment. A covenant before our God. We have weathered so many storms, walked through so many valleys as well as stood on so many mountain tops. Each step of the way our Lord holding our hand to see us through and bring us back center again. I wouldnt trade one day without you being by my side and as we walk into our future together and I am thrilled at the prospect to carry out my days continuing to love you. Happy Anniversary Vivian. On you my heart is fixed and gladly proclaim that to the world. Your loving husband, Jonathan. Love Is the Greatest If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. 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! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:1–13 (NLT).