Fifty Years Together

I wrote this in 1999 for my father and mother-in-law's 50th Wedding Anniversary.  Their love is so great you can see it everyday.  I have had one vision from the day Jim and I where married (October 24, 1981) that we will grow old together fifty years or more.

Fifty Years Together

What God has joined, let no man put asunder

         fifty years together

                  some wish it

                           some have lived it

                                    some will not be so fortunate

For the young can imagine, the old can remember

         fifty years together

Maybe it began with a glance

         an introduction

                  or a meeting by chance

A marriage starts by two joined as one

         one love, one passion

                  one life, one forever

And through the years, as wife and husband

         are together for sickness and health

                  are side by side in good times and bad

Together they love, honor and cherish

         each other

                  their children

                           their children’s children

Together they share

         their success and loss

                  times when faith was there

                           together no matter the cost

Now it has been some fifty years

         fifty years of memories made, dreams coming true

                  fifty years for others to model after and aspire to

What tomorrow will bring is hard to say

         but together we will be day by day.

                                                 Andrea Keding, July 1999