Folks, I'll be honest here. Marriage is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. It is also the most rewarding thing I've ever done. If you were to ask my or my wife that the most remarkable aspect of our marriage, we might say with a big smile of accomplishment it is the fact that we are still married.
Because even on those occasions when everything else is lost between us, and we have those special marital moments where we feel our lives would be better off without the complexity, love saves the day. But not love of each other, love of our children. We love our children and are very keen to the fact that they want us to stay together as the unbeatable duo of best Mom and Dad in the world. And we know they deserve nothing less.
Seeing their reactions to the various moods my wife and I may harbor towards each other affirms to me every day the importance of marriage is not what I get from it, and not what my wife gets from it. The importance of marriage is what my kids get from it.
If I could have my wish, we would all enter the new year and remember this message above all others in regard to marriage. While we adults can often confuse ourselves about what marriage means, kids know it because they know what we mean to them. Marriage is to enjoy not just a few moments, but lifetimes knowing and loving. And those lifetimes add up to something much bigger then our short lives give us a glimpse of. Together they add up to a heritage of improvement, devotion, love, honor and respect which empowers our progeny to reach higher then we could ever dream.
Have a happy new year everyone.
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