When Trish and I first married, we were blessed to have Mr. & Mrs. Langley as across the street neighbors. The Langleys were in their eighties but did everything together, and independently. They gardened, they mowed grass, they bought their own groceries, they went where they needed when they needed. And, they were full of wisdom.
Several years after moving in across the street from the Langleys, Mrs. Langley passed away. I believe she was eighty-nine and that they had been married for like seventy plus years. Mr. Langley at the time was early nineties. At the funeral home for visitation, I squatted next to Mr. Langley and told him how sorry I was. His response still resonates with me today. Mr. Langley, who had been married to Mrs. Langley for seventy plus years, looked me in the eye and said, "Mike, I thought we would get the chance to grow old together."
Today's word is traditionally used for weddings but it has been on my mind lately. It is Mark 10:9, NIV, which reads, "Therefore what GOD has joined together, let no one separate."
Mr. and Mrs. Langley had been together FOREVER in an earthly sense, yet, it still wasn't enough. GOD had fitly joined them together and no one ever separated them. Because of GOD'S work in their marriage and their love for one another, seventy plus years wasn't nearly enough.
There are lots of things/distractions that will tear and tug and try our marriages. The wear and tear of the everyday grind can be grueling. But, if we allow GOD to do His good work in our lives, individually, and in our marriages, collectively, we will find that all those external forces cannot stand against what GOD has joined together.
Be Blessed,
Mickey T
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