Wedding Anniversary is For the Birds

I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?

Vintage 80's "Malia of Honolulu" Sundress... Glad Life is More than This!

Life is Also More than These 80's- Era- Awesome Loafers

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and yet their heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they?

Part of My Bird Nest Collection

And which of you being anxious can add a single cubit to life's span?

And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory did not clothe himself like one of these. But if God so arrays the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more do so for you, O men of little faith?

Spring Hydrangeas... So Beautiful... Here Today and Gone Tomorrow

Do not be anxious then, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "what shall we drink?" or "With what shall we clothe ourselves?" For all these things the Gentiles eagerly seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But, seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.

Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day had trouble enough of its own. ---Matthew 6: 25-34

On May 1, 1982, I clung tightly within my heart to the beautiful Matthew passage. There were so many unknowns when this twenty-two year old sorority girl walked the aisle. I committed my life to another person and traded all the security I had ever known for a big city and finding a job. I worried about how we would pay for my husband's graduate school, our apartment, food, and clothing.

But, trading the unknowns for the Known is how we survived.

Newly- Married Me with Our First Dog at Our First House

One apartment, seven houses, three cities, countless rabbits, two birds, four dogs, three children, and twenty-nine years later... I am still alive... still not naked... ate dinner last night... and, even though it is raining outside, I have a roof which keeps me dry (Well, mostly, it is an 88- year- old house.).

Our Porch Which is Currently Leaking

All my thankfulness is given to Christ. I could have never made it until today by myself. I can not think of my anniversary without recalling Matthew 6 because, not matter how much I try, I can not get past it...

nor should I want to.