“Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.” Song of Solomon 8:7
Today is our 50th wedding anniversary. We are the only ones in our immediate families except for my maternal grandparents to be married this long. Almost every morning we wake up and ask each other if we ever thought we would have lived to be married this long. We talk about the miracle that we found in being with each other. I keep thinking about Ann Lamott’s quote in Help, Thanks, Wow: “the secret of marriage is thinking that you got the better deal.” I know that is true for me as do all who know my husband. He inherited kindness and thoughtfulness from his mother and father who also passed it on to our children. We know living this long with another person is a miracle. We know that this was not something that we have accomplished on our own. We talk about friends and family who helped us, many who have died. We miss being with them. Many died because of life style habits that so easily could have been part of our lives. Mostly each day we are grateful for this miracle of our life together. With every miracle goes a place of darkness. We don’t want to stop being together for a single second and have to experience this life without each other. This is living in fear instead of just enjoying one more day in the company of one you love in this life. A fear-based life is not life but death. This is our gift today to each other and to our children and grandchildren that we have learned in the last 50 years: a life of constant gratitude and trying to live in the present moment is what living is all about.
Joanna. Joannaseibert.com
Book Signing Wordsworth Books
Saturday, November 2, 2019 1 to 3 pm
Just in time for the holidays
A Spiritual Rx for Advent Christmas, and Epiphany
The Sequel to A Spiritual Rx for Lent and Easter
Both are $18. Money from sale of the books goes to Camp Mitchel Camp and Conference Center in Arkansas or Hurricane Relief in
The Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast