Love Is The Sweetest Thing

A certain couple had been married fifty-one years and still acted like newlyweds. The husband was in poor health, a shut-in. The couples’ pastor describes what he calls “One of my favorite shut-in visits” …

The husband laboriously shuffled across the room and sat down next to me. The wife sat down as close as possible to him on the arm of his chair.

I asked them how they had managed to sustain their beautiful relationship for more than fifty-one years. The dear old man looked up at me as though surprised to hear that they had been married that long. Then he said, “Emma and I decided the day we got married not to get angry with each other at the same time.”

Obviously the formula was workable for them. It is also Scriptural. The Apostle Peter has written, “Never pay back one wrong for another, or an angry word with another one; instead pay back with a blessing. That is what you are…