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Why We Need Anniversaries
Once a year, we have an excuse to remember. What memories are we making today?
Les and Leslie Parrott | posted 9/12/2008
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My parents' anniversary got Leslie and me thinking about the mere decade or more of our own marriage. We have started marking time more carefully, taking the opportunity to reminisce about the good gifts we've enjoyed as a couple. Mom and Dad's major marriage milestone helped us mark our own progress. We were reminded that the memories we treasure tomorrow will be the ones we create today.
Something else struck us about Mom and Dad's golden anniversary—their utter dependence on God. They are living proof that no single factor does more to cultivate oneness and a meaningful sense of purpose in marriage than a shared commitment to spiritual discovery.
Spirituality is to your marriage as yeast is to a loaf of bread. We have said to hundreds of couples: Ultimately, your spiritual commitment will determine whether your marriage rises successfully or falls disappointingly flat. Will you look back while celebrating 50 years together and say, "I can't believe the time is so short"?
Les Parrott, Ph.D., and Leslie Parrott, Ed.D., are the authors of Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts and Like a Kiss on the Lips (both published by Zondervan).
1998 by the author or Christianity Today International/Marriage Partnership magazine. For reprint information call 630-260-6200 or e-mailmp@marriagepartnership.com.
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