Love Endures All Things (Ep #8)

Marriage is not for wimps. Anyone who is married, or has been married before, knows that it takes determined love, forgiveness, understanding, commitment, a degree of compromise, and so much more to make a marriage successfully last. Andrea and I have been through our share of ups and downs together. We have experienced times of great happiness and joy, when our lives seemed to be perfectly aligned and all was well, as well as times of distress and struggle, when internal and external factors seemed like they were almost too much for us to handle. Our love has been tested more than once. This is why we believe love is a choice. Of course, there are plenty of times when our emotions and feelings accompany our decisions with great happiness, desire, hope, interest...etc. The problem with subscribing to the philosophy of "falling in love" is that you could very well endanger your future-self with the feelings or emotional response of "falling out of love." Some of the hardest battles to win are the invisible ones fought in our mind and heart, remembering our willpower tends to follow after our heart and its desires.
We choose to love each other in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer...you know the rest. We choose to love each other when sometimes it seems life would be easier to simply not. Love is not for wimps. I hope and pray you find yourself choosing to love your family, friends, and even society all around you. Though at times we will be tested, Love Endures All Things.

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