Still in love after 36 years of marriage.... what a Joy!

 I stepped out onto the deck last night to look at the moon. During the day someone had reminded me that it was going to be a “super-moon”! They told me, that would be another 14 years before the moon gets this close again.I stood in the moonlight thinking about 36 years ago! Yes, 36 years ago I looked at the moon and thought about the next day.... Today Annie and I celebrate 36 years of marriage. It has been a great joy to share our love and our life together.Here we are 36 years latter and I’m still looking at the moon, dreaming of tomorrow.It was truly awesome! That moon, this moon, so many moons,.... as I stood there I suddenly received a vision .... I could see men stepping out of a space ship starting a space walk and I noticed that he was securely fastened to the ship. If that tether gets somehow cut, the astronaut would get sucked right out into space.Instantly my mind was captured by the sight of all the numerous weddings that I have preformed and of all the number of hours that I have spent counseling couples in their marriages.It really doesn’t take a vision to understand that marriages need help. People everywhere know that there is something wrong with our culture’s understanding of marriage!It dawned on me in the midst of the moonlight that if man is not tethered to God and his revelation of himself in the Bible, then man’s not sure who he is, what marriage is, what being a husband is, what being a wife means, and on and on. Without God people get sucked out into space. The culture simply eats you up and you think you are nothing more than just an insignificant accidental part of it.The worldview has infiltrated the church with terrible results. What was it that I heard yesterday.... it will be another 14 years before the moon comes this close to the earth again. Oh yes and “be sure and enjoy the sunsets and moonrises here because there won’t be any in heaven.” I haven’t really checked that out, but it did catch my attention.I do realize that the Son will be the only light that is necessary. So there might be something to paying attention to sunsets and moonrises.The moon is a reflection of the sun, maybe we ought to move a little closer to the Son and shine a little light on what it means to reflect the true meaning of marriage.The moon last night was awesome! It glowed with the light of the sun, that I could not see. I truly believe that our marriages are a reflection of the relationship that Christ has with the Church.Without being tethered to Christ and the understanding of His marriage to the Bride we will be sucked out into the culture of this world. I am rambling a bit, some say that I chase a lot of squirrels, and maybe that’s true. I do know that the Lord makes a lot of connects in my heart with conversations and observations. I hope that I have sparked a bit of thought.It has been and continues to be an honor to be Annie’s husband! I love her more than ever.Maybe over the next season of our lives we can teach and speak about how being ‘tethered’ to Christ has empowered our marriage.Well, good morning! I thought maybe my early morning thoughts might bless someone!FYI..... go find your spouse and give him/her a hug!Pastor Q