Remembering the vows and choosing to keep dancing that 1st wedding dance, over and over again… Keep on dancing, ol’ marrieds who’ve just been through the flood, “whatever the weather, you have each other, and that’s how the story will end.” (Forever Like That, Ben Rector).
For those of us who’ve been married – through the better, and who’ve seen the worse too. And for those of us who have been married through the health but also through the sickness too, and for those of us who know riches, but are well familiar with poorness too – For those who are married through the days upon days, months upon months and years upon years – who have smiled for pictures yet have also wept on closet floors.
I have to share a song. Played with a guitar and two simple voices as the bride and the groom sang along on their wedding day floor- oh yes, we’ve got to learn this song – all us old marrieds- because we’ve been stepping right and leaning left and have kept on singing through all of the years, the smiles, the tears… and we keep taking the next breath and even keep choosing to put simple melody on each day’s tune.
So perhaps we all learn to sing a song that’s already written- by someone young and dreamy – but we will sing it with ‘great depths of meaning!’ Perhaps we sing it in our little ‘ol kitchens when the kids all gather for holiday! Perhaps we teach our children that marriage is …forever, ‘Forever like that!’ 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, just like a waltz, we sing or we say:
“Well I’ll be your rainy day lover. Whenever the sunny days end.
And whatever the weather, we have each other.
And that’s how the story will end
Well I’ll be your shade tree in summer mmm.
If you’ll be my fire when it’s cold.
And whatever the season, well, we’ll keep on breathing.
Cause we’ll have each other to hold.
I’ll hold you- I’ll sing.
I wanna love you, forever I do.
I wanna spend all of my days with you.
I’ll carry your burdens and be the wind at your back.
I wanna spend my forever – forever like that.
Well I’ll be the words on the pages.
If you’ll be my sweet melody.
And the tune can keep changing, cause I’ll keep arranging.
And this is the song that we’ll sing.
We’ll sing ooo
I wanna love you, forever I do.
I wanna spend all of my days with you.
I’ll carry your burdens and be the wind at your back.
I wanna spend my forever – forever like that.
When the rain comes, I’ll be your shelter.
When the wind blow, we’ll be together.
When the storms they rise, I’ll be right here by your side.
And I’ll sing-
I’m gonna love you, forever I do.
I’m gonna spend all my days with you.
I’ll carry your burdens and be the wind at your back.
I’m gonna spend my forever – forever like that. (Forever Like That by Ben Rector!) (! Exclamation point, mine).
To my husband, Mike,
It’s been 29 years, 11 kids, miscarriages too, schooling and colleges, with a ton of ‘stuff’ in the middle, and lots of music and art too, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. I have not always been great at carrying any of your burdens, but I’m so thankful we both have Jesus, ’cause He took hold of them all when we couldn’t even lift our heads. But we pray and ask God to help us obey. Jesus has been the glue that has kept us together, ’cause He helps us get through the rough and tough days, and helps us keep dancing this waltz ‘no matter the weather’.
And He let us watch that sweet and beautiful bride and groom just the other day, and we shed a tear in the depths of our hearts, because the song they were dancing to – is the same song that we’ve been singing…each year, through…
“And I’ll sing – I’m gonna love you, forever I do. I’m gonna spend all of my days with you. I’ll carry your burdens and be the wind at your back. I’m gonna spend my forever, forever like that!”
I love you Mike. And I pray for all of us ‘ol marrieds, that we remember that “whenever the sunny days end, and whatever the weather, we have each other…and that’s how the story will end.”
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