Because it is now officially our anniversary

[prosodic]

Four years ago today, I married a man with whom I've shared an amazing adventure. We started out our life together here in this foreign land, and experienced all the challenges and wonders that such a situation brings. Now this phase of our life is coming to an end, and we're moving back to our homeland, buying our first house and making a place we can call our own. I have no doubt that new challenges and wonders await, but as always, we will deal with them using our own special brand of humor.

In honor of this important milestone on our journey together, I'm sharing one of the readings we had in our wedding ceremony. It means more to me now than it did four years ago.

From Wendell Berry’s “The Country of Marriage”:

Sometimes our life reminds me
Of a forest in which there is a graceful clearing
And in that opening a house,
An orchard and garden,
Comfortable shades, and flowers,
Red and yellow in the sun, a pattern
Made in the light for the light to return to.
The forest is mostly dark, its ways
To be made anew day after day, the dark
Richer than the light and more blessed,
Provided we stay brave
Enough to keep on going in.

Happy Anniversary to my dear, wonderful husband!!! May we always have more laughter than tears. And may our home together always be a haven in an uncertain world. I love you.

Comments

[byron.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!!!!

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Good choice of dates. ;) Happy anniversary!

[dimwit68.livejournal.com]

(Shouldn't you wait until midnight at the place that you married before it's officially your anniversary ? :)

Happy anniversary.

[godchick.livejournal.com]

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[queendisko.livejournal.com]

Congratulations - you two are a wonderful couple!

[hetterrific.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!

[flockofgulls.livejournal.com]

HAPPY ANI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

[emmabovary.livejournal.com]

Awww. Many years of continued happiness side by side.

[mrs-picasso.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!! Lately I've been reflecting on how I started reading you a month or two after you were married. You've come so far and I can't believe you will be back in the US soon!