Hello Friends!
I pray you had a
fantastic day –
But, if you did not … relax, it is almost the weekend!
And some things are
worth the wait
Ecclesiastes 3:1 states,
‘To everything there is a season, and a time
for every purpose under heaven’
I thought about this verse earlier this week
When I had the wonderful occasion
to meet and converse with a ‘vintaged’ gentleman named Cliff
That is not an insult; after all, he is probably only twenty
years older than me
He started out talking about this area – how he’d spent
most of his life in this region;
Five years in the military and
five in the Midwest, and then he returned to Virginia.
He went on to tell me how was wife was from up north;
And he started sharing some of things he loves about her
You could hear the honor
in his voice as he talked
So I asked, ‘How long have you been married?’
Based upon our conversation up to that point,
I
expected him to say forty or fifty years –
He responded proudly, ‘We’ve been married for ten years
..
but we’ve been together for 30!
He was not a bit surprised at the look on my face –
begging for an explanation
without saying a word
He went on to tell me that they dated for twenty years
He said, ‘I can’t say fully why we waited so long;
but, once you get in your
fifties you start thinking’
‘Truthfully’, he said, ‘if we got married way back then,
I don’t know that we would still
be together.’
‘We have both matured and grown over years’
Then he told me
how it was still an adjustment when
they got married
He had his town home and she had her house,
They had to adjust to living together once they got
married
He told me how she loves to cook and he hates cooking:
‘So, she cooks and I eat … and clean’. ‘But even that was an adjustment’, he said.
‘When you’ve each lived alone for so long, you get used
to doing things a certain way.’
“For us it was the dishwasher. She said it wasn’t a big
deal. But, I told her, ‘I want to do it the way you like it though’ … so I
adjusted.”
It was just one of
the most precious conversations!
He told me how much she has helped him grow as a person
over their thirty years together.
‘She has introduced me to art and dining, to travel and
leisure activities. When I used to meet people, all I would talk about was my
work. Now I have so many things to discuss. She is a gem!’
I absolutely loved
it!!!
I am still smiling thinking back on parts of that
conversation.
You could hear how much he loved and appreciated her …
So beautiful!
He told me when they sent out the ‘Save the Date’
invitations for their wedding, they wrote:
Some will way we’re late,
But we’ve finally set the date…
Some things are worth the wait!
Indeed!
Just think about those who have had exercise great
patience in waiting for their promise –
Sarah waited 90-years before being blessed with Isaac;
Abraham was 100!
Elizabeth and Zechariah spent many years in waiting before
John the Baptist came
Jesus walked this earth thirty years for a three-year
earthly ministry
But,
oh what a ministry!
So my dear friend –
Do not lose heart if things are not moving at the pace you would like,
Do
not lose courage, do not become discouraged –
It will happen right when it
needs to.
God is preparing
you for what He has prepared for you –
Trust me, it will be worth the wait!
Have a Blessed Evening!
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