The reverence of remembering and reflecting...

    
 Last weekend, husband and I had the honor of fellowship with husbands and wives whose marriages reflected glory.  We are a team of marriage mentors...guiding, encouraging, and inspiring those who come behind us.

We are NOT perfect in any sense but we were all perfectly planned to join together that which no one should put asunder.

Husband and I are humbled, being the least experienced, least learned, so maybe the most challenged within this circle.

So, we easily stand to gain, grow, and glean from these marvel of mentors in marriage.

As I listened and learned as each spoke in turn, I realized the art, their art...that what they have practiced all these years together in their union.

They each remembered and reflected on the reminiscent.  It was lovely...

Dave remarked he married "up" when he married Mary.

Terra reflected on Jeff''s first invitation...it happened to be on Valentines Day.  So timely...yet unplanned.

Paul and Peggy reminisced of the basketball game after vows exchanged...then chuckled together...delighted.

Rob and Betty roared in laughter as they remembered the wedding gift...burial plots.

Rich beamed in reverence as he admitted he married the Beauty...in every sense of the word.

I remembered the boy I fell weak in the knees and madly in heart...charming, chivalrous courtship.

Ahhhh...I see...

                   ...the value of reminiscing, reflecting, and remembering
                   ...wraps the years in reverence.