The Good Days of Marriage

Dear Lord, thank you for the good days of marriage. The days when we wake up pleased with each other, our jobs, our children, our home, and ourselves.

Thank you for our communication-the times when we can really talk to each other; and the times when we understand each other without so much as a gesture of a word.

Thank you for our companionship-the times when we can work together at projects we both enjoy. Or work in our separate fields and yet have that sense of sharing that can only come when two persons' lives have merged in so many other ways so long. Thank you that we don't feel cut off from each other, no matter how divergent the things we do.

Thank you for our times of privacy. Our times of freedom. Our relaxed sense of personal trust. Thank you that we don't have to clutch and stifle each other, that we have learned to respect ourselves enough to respect the other's individuality.

Thank you, lord, that despite the many storms of marriage we have reached these particular shores. Help us to remember them. Help us to hold fast to them, Lord.