BLISS

I say bliss, because that is truly what the last five years have been since May 30, 2005, the day Rob and I said "I do". It's hard to believe that the time has gone so swiftly and that we are already parents to an almost one-year-old. I am constantly amazed and so grateful for the sweet relationship God has given us. We often think - can anyone be as happy as we are together?

I have loved this sonnet for a long time. I guess I'm posting it because I'm realizing already that there are so many things we will experience together on this journey of marriage, and I cherish the way our love grows and matures through each challenge. I pray that this continues to happen abundantly in the future and for however many years we have together. I thought about writing my own poem, but hey - Shakespeare is a little better with words than I am (a little).

Sonnet CXVI

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love,

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

Oh, no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests.. and is never shaken.

It is the star to every wandering bark

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love is not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out.. even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

- William Shakespeare

Thanks for letting me blubber a little - we are truly blessed!