Forty years is a drop in the bucket of eternity.

It’s nothing at all in the cosmos,

or placed next to God’s plan.

Yet look what’s happened in the last 41.

In that time we two became one,

and then expanded to nearly 60.

All but one of those is very happy.

That’s an exponential amount of happiness

that wasn’t in the world when we began.

God’s eternal purpose and plan

is to make His children happy.

I guess we’ve adopted the same plan.

I think we can call ourselves successful.

You, of all people, certainly are

because you’ve made me very, very happy.

Everything I am, I owe to you.

Everything I hope to be hinges on you.

You’re my hope, my happiness, and my help.

You’re my comfort, my constant, and my compass.

You’re my teacher, my touchstone, and my favorite thought.

It’s possible that just by marrying me

you doubled the total happiness in the world.

 

 

28 Dec 2010