June 1, 1991

Twenty years ago today, I married my best friend.  Yes, it was 1991 (that explains the "Jade Green" decor).  We had a simple wedding, but included all of the elements that were meaningful to us.  Attended by our close friends and family, it was an intimate, spiritual occasion.  It's funny how it seems like only yesterday the event took place, and yet we've had so much "living" since that time.  I look at how young we were, although we were older than the average bride and groom, and sometimes wish for that naturally dark hair and wrinkle-free face.  But one thing I've learned these past twenty years is that the gray hair and wrinkles and flabby skin is a mark of life - lived!  Each line, each gray hair is a tribute to an event or milestone we've shared.  There have been many sad times.....loss of pregnancies, job disappointments, the loss of a parent.  But the happy times have overshadowed the sadness.  The birth of children, watching them grow into beautiful, loving, productive young women.  Seeing our oldest daughter marry her high school sweetheart and witnessing them becoming parents (and us grandparents).  Living through our youngest daughter learn to drive (still working on that one).....the graceful aging we achieve is earned - through each day of living and loving in the wonderful gift God has given us.  Each other - the most precious commodity we possess.  Let us not take this gift for granted.  I have been guilty of doing that very thing many times.  So on this day that we celebrate our marriage, let me just say that I love my husband, Richard Williams, with all of my heart.  I am so glad that he asked me to go to the New Kids On The Block concert..........that story is for another day.

"Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.......Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."   Ephesians 5:22, 25