A Noisy Gong

Do you ever need this reminder? Sometimes I feel like I'm just a clangling cymbal. I don't always have the patience or kindness I need.  This is from I Corinthians 13 and has been continually coming back to my mind this week. True love is a hard thing to live out, but I hope you are as challenged as I am by reading this.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
 Love never ends.

Anniversary

June is definitely The Wedding Month.  My Grandparents are celebrating 60 years of wedded bliss! Can you believe it?! I, for one, think that is so amazing. Can you imagine being married to someone for that long? It's quite the accomplishment.

They have the sweetest love story, and in a nutshell, it goes something like this...

My grandparents both grew up in the same poor town of North Carolina. Their parents were friends but their children had never met each other for the good reason that they were ten years apart. The world was in turmoil with the start of World War II and my grandfather was drafted and sent over seas to fight. In the meantime, my grandmother started high school.

After many long months and several battle wounds later, my Papa returned home from fighting on the war torn beaches of Normandy to his home in North Carolina (yes, he did fight on D-Day!!). He was twenty-nine years old at the time. 

My Mimi was just 19 when a picture on a family friend's mantle caught her eye. 

You guessed it. My Papa came home from the war, met this sweet girl, and promptly fell in love. They went on thirteen dates and were married shortly after my grandmother graduated from high school. 

This is a picture I snapped of them just about a month ago. I am so thankful for my grandparents. Just like you see in this picture, they have never left each others' sides. They are so committed to each other and I consider myself fortunate to have such a great heritage. They are both such wonderful people and I love them so much. Happy Anniversary!!

XO,

C