ago, I said these words to her:
Don’t spend so much time planning
the wedding that you forget to prepare
for the marriage.
I, David, take you, Tamela,
To hold from this day forward,
For better or for worse,
For richer or for poorer,
In sickness and in health,
To love and to cherish,
From this day forward,
Till death do us part.
As it is with life, it is with love. Every
mar riag e h a s s e a s o n s . Yo u will
experience the summer of passion in
cycles and stages of your marriage.
During that season you can’t keep
your hands off of each other. It seems
like when you see them, you are
immediately drawn to them as if it were
the first time. Cherish the summer days
so you’ll remember them when winter
comes. Cherish the days when you can
hold her hand on the beach, because
there may come a day when you will
have to push her in a wheelchair. There
may come a day when it will be hard
to come home at night because of
the stress you feel outside your door.
The summer season helps you push
through it.
You will have fall seasons as well.
That’s when things begin to shift very
quickly and what once provided shade
and shelter is now withering away like
the wind. In the fall you’ve got to learn
how to change clothes, metaphorically
speaking. In the fall season, you learn
to value the layers of love. You learn
to see your spouse for all the things
they do to cover, protect, keep, and
nourish you. You learn to appreciate
all the things that make your spouse
beautiful, even when certain things
change. Like valuable wine, your
spouse will age with grace.
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