Friday, June 04, 2004

Today I celebrate 20 years of marriage. I found this poem written by someone else but the words are what I am feeling today.

We've traveled several rocky roads together.
Sometimes I didn't think we'd get this far.
Three children and twenty-five years later
We're more a couple than we ever were.

Years of trying polished off the edges
Because we both possessed the will to try.
What we got is one of life's great treasures:
A garden on the shifting sands of time.

Love demands a kind of self-surrender
That sometimes is with difficulty won.
All who join in marriage must endeavor
To make another's happiness their own.

This sacrifice quite often seems so easy,
But day by day and year by year it's not.
Trust enables one to love completely,
Living with one's charity unlocked.

Our love is like a deep and verdant valley
Nestled in the mountains of desire.
Though all of life's a dream that passes quickly,
We've made a place among the circling stars


Funny, in addition to this poem, the scene from Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail where Indiana has to choose the cup of Jesus from hundreds of others keeps popping in my head as I ponder my marriage. He has one chance to drink from the real cup or be be destroyed. He chooses the most humble one, drinks and is rewarded by the words of the Knight guarding the grail... "You have chosen wisely."