On the Banks of the Meuse

This week we celebrated our thirtieth wedding anniversary, and I must say, my husband knows how to make it romantic! He started it off with presenting me with a video that he made that makes me cry EVERY time I watch it! Then he took me to an amazing restaurant outside of Namur, a small city sixty kilometers southeast of Brussels.  Pictures definitely don’t do it justice, but here goes:

Our view from the restaurant

Another view from the restaurant

After an unbelievably amazing dinner we strolled along the banks of the river:

This doorway was just standing in the middle of a big open space. The year carved above the door says “1676″.

What beauty. What a gift. This was only forty-five minutes from our house. We are blessed.  Thank you, Lord, for thirty amazing years.

Thirty Years of Wedded Bliss

At 5:00 pm tonight Texas time thirty years ago, I married my best friend. I married the man of my dreams. I married a man who would love me through thick and thin…lean times and abundant times…pretty times and ugly times.  I married a man who would be the father of my five children and the grandfather of my seven precious grandbabies.  (I can’t ever talk about my grandchildren without using the word “precious”!)  I married a man who loves Yeshua with all of his being and is not satisfied with anything less than giving his life to search out the mysteries of God.  I married a man who would show me what it means to love God’s people unconditionally, even through offenses.  I married a man who would show me what it means to be fiercely loyal no matter what storms might come.  I married a man who would show me what humility looks like. I married a man who believes the best in everyone and does what it takes to make them successful.  I married a man who would give his life for his family and love them with a fierce love. I married a man who would do anything and go anywhere to be in the will of God. Our life in Israel and Belgium is proof of that.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. I am beyond blessed to be his best friend and wife.  Thank you, honey, for thirty wonderful years. I’m eternally grateful.

29th anniversary on the patio of our apt in Israel last year

Gary standing inside the Eastern Gate on the Temple Mount

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