JULY 2018

July is a neat month for us.  I especially look at July fondly.  It is the month in which Bob and I were married.  As I think about it we knew so little about planning the event and what went into it!!!  We now know that weddings can be made to be so much more meaningful and look so spectacular and exotic and epic!!!! All we knew was that we wanted to be married and be together forever.  (Ahhh how romantic) . AND so it happened, planned and directed mostly by others but what did it matter!!!  That has now been 48 years ago!!!!  We always thought anyone married more than 25 years was elderly, that was of course, until we celebrated our 25th.  We moved to Calgary as we celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary.  Still so young and totally gungho to be involved with our family here in Calgary and all things Calgary.  This was what we dubbed our Freedom 55 year.  Anniversary 40 happened several years after Bob's diagnosis of cancer.  We were so blessed to celebrate that year.  WOW.  Each year following has been an exceptional gift to us.  No matter what the year held at Tom Baker Cancer Centre we have had July.  Here in this month, we are once again those wide eyed young adults stepping into life together.  Fearless because we have each other and were totally in love.  Since that wedding day we have accepted Jesus into our lives as our personal Savior and have followed Him through reading His Word in the bible and through the teaching of godly men in bible believing churches.  We honestly, remind each other that we would not have survived these 48 years of marriage without God in our lives each day.  It has been an amazing learning curve to follow Jesus, to trust Him and look to Him each day.  Amazing to know the answers to prayer.  Prayers large and small.  Each of us, with faith in Jesus, know that it is our own personal surrender to Him.  Our family does not have eternal life because Bob and I have faith in Jesus.  Each of them need to accept faith in Jesus as their own.  Where will you spend eternity?  I will spend eternity in heaven with Jesus.  Bob and I will both be there and no matter how many Julys we celebrate together on earth, eternity is forever.  Coming?????