Silver Anniversary

Today my wife and I celebrated our 25th anniversary.

It is difficult for me to understand where the years have gone. I still feel like I’m same old 24 year old I was on the day we were married.

I can’t speak highly enough concerning my wife. She was willing to marry someone who was more then a little rough around the edges, being convinced, for reasons known only to her, that God’s hand was upon my life. Jane has been my closest confidant and God has used her to bring significant stability into my life. Like all good wives she has been patient. In the tradition of all good wives she has only seldom spoken a cross word. She has never betrayed my trust, never wavered in her love for me, never tired of extending forgiveness for my boneheadedness. She has been stellar in all respects. I know, beyond any doubt, that with Jane, I received far better than I deserved. She has been one expression of God’s mercy to me.

Without Jane it is difficult to see how I would have developed the ability to trust people. Without Jane my social skills would be completely in abeyance. Without Jane I wouldn’t have learned how to let things pass.

On our first anniversary we were in Seminary and she had to teach me that Seminary was no excuse for not celebrating anniversaries. On our fifth anniversary we had just started our first pastorate. By then I had learned that celebrating anniversaries was important. We rented a swanky Hotel room that cost us very little due to my connections with the travel industry. Other anniversaries I remember was the one when we picnicked, the one where we got away at a New England Oceanside bed and breakfast, the several where we went out for a night on the town, and the one when I was finally able to buy her a decent anniversary gift.

In the 25 years we’ve been married we have moved six times (five times in the first five years alone). We managed to finish Seminary together where things got so tight we learned how to make garbage soup out of potato peelings, carrot peelings, and boiled chicken or turkey bones. We’ve had three children. We’ve been at two Churches. We’ve traveled quite a bit within the Continental United States (compliments of free flight benefits when I worked at United Airlines), we’ve seen dreams we’ve had squashed without understanding why, and we have repeatedly seen God’s hand of providence as a married couple.

Jane Louise is all that a husband could ask for and more. She is the embodiment of all that Scripture speaks of when it speaks of a godly wife.

I pray my son will one day find a woman as fine as his mother. Every night I go to bed believing and praying that there must be at least one more woman out there like Jane for Anthony.

Happy Anniversary Jane.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane