Psalm 146:5 ESV Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God.

Today is our 26th anniversary. If you asked me last year how the marriage was, I would have said things were really great. But this year every little bit of it got even better. I guess that should be an expected result of us both growing in the Lord, walking more and more closely with Him. Marriage is easy and a tremendous blessing when self and sin aren’t in the way.

If you laid our marriage down over the story of Job, we’re in the part where you get the double portion.

We had six years where things were hard. I blame my sin and he his. As it should be. I thought about giving up hope, but the Lord stopped me dead in my tracks when I was musing on a separation. The Lord was the hope of our marriage and all the help we needed to get out of the pit.

It makes me so sad when I hear about people giving up. I know they are missing out on all the wonderful we live in now. In any situation there is always hope. His name is Jesus.