Let me share a little story…years ago I had played a softball game and took my rings off and attached them to my keychain. At some point between that day and the next, I lost my wedding ring. It was a gut-wrenching moment. I didn’t know how I was going to tell the hubs, and outside of that I was so troubled because it was something I couldn’t just replace or get back. It was the ring that I took my vows with, the one that ultimately held the symbolism of our union. Now what was I to do? Well, I lived without it. We even stayed married, LOL! But on a serious note, it was something I had to process through losing. No, it was not a matter of our marriage, it was the very thing I had, physically, from that day that represented the vows, that I took very seriously. It was something of great value to me, that I eventually just got rings that would hold the place for this time.
I’ve been without my wedding ring for at least half of our marriage…today, yes literally today, we have been married 25 years. Well, two months ago, the hubs gave me my replacement for our 25th and it is more special today than the original. It represents something different, a growth, I mean the ring itself is much bigger than the original. It also shows a renewal of who we have become as a unit. The braid/twist of the band reveals the intwined unity of us being one, and much stronger together. It reveals the attention to detail, the desire to give the best in where we are in this point of our life, to give a gift to represent the new season of our marriage. We are new people, we are new together, and we are stronger than you can imagine. With God as our head, we continued through even the hardest of times in our lives. I am grateful that we went through like we did to grasp the healing, the revelations, the strength, the patience, and the rereward…no that is not a typo, a reward that rewards over and over again. It is truly an honor, a blessing, a gift, to be where we are today and where we are going. We are an amazing team, unstoppable actually, with the greatest Coach of all time!
Ecclesiastes 5:5 KJV – “5 Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.”
Ephesians 5:22-29 KJV – “22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:”
Genesis 2:24 KJV – “24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Matthew 19:5-6 KJV – “5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Mark 10:8 KJV – “8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.”
Ephesians 5:31 KJV – “31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”
Ecclesiastes 4:12 KJV – “12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”