50

June 6, 2020

7:20 pm. “I now pronounce you husband and wife.” Fifty years ago. By 10:30, on our way to our home, we had our first meal together as a married couple. The only thing open between Frewsburg and Alma was a hot dog stand in Allegany. It was only 6:00, but there wasn’t much more open today. We did a little better than hot dogs, but it wouldn’t have mattered if our golden anniversary were celebrated with Johnny’s or AJ’s. It’s the together that made the day, just as it has for fifty years. 

We have just passed a milestone, one of many and of many to come. It’s not the years that are important, but the life we have poured into them; laughter and tears, sweat and rest, love and commitment. Tomorrow we begin the next leg of the journey as we began the last, in worship and thanksgiving for the great gift of God’s Son and the life we’ve found together in him. It’s been good...very good, but the best is yet to come.