Musings on 30 Years of Marriage--12

30 years! We made it. Quite a milestone.

Over the last several months Jan has been pouring hours of her life into Ancestry.com, researching my family and her family. She's about as far as she can go at this time and is putting a book together. On one of the pages she has a collage of pictures of the two of us: A picture of us in front of the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center as the snow falls; a picture of the two of us on camels in Petra, Jordan; a picture of the two of us on a hill overlooking Jerusalem; a picture of us by the Tower Bridge in London...

I looked at those pictures and thought, "We've had a good run, so far."

We've been blessed with one of those marriages where we have been in love since the day we were married. After 30 years we still like each other. We come from a long, interesting line of people. We have two marvelous kids who have married fantastic spouses. We've enjoyed amazing health. We've traveled the world together. We've been a part of two dynamic ministries.

It has been a good run, so far.

This afternoon we went over to Mike's and Amber's for our anniversary and a delicious meal from Arby's (I set up a romantic dinner for two on the beach on Maui a few weeks ago, so we had our big anniversary dinner then). I sat and rocked my little granddaughter, Clover.

It has been a good run, so far!