{"id":3705,"date":"2011-08-02T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T15:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lasherstudios.com\/blog\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2011-08-02T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T15:12:34","slug":"happy-36th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/?p=3705","title":{"rendered":"Happy 36th Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hard to believe\u2026today Steve and I celebrate our 36th wedding Anniversary. <\/em><em>I thank God for Steve\u2019s love, faithfulness, and long-standing commitment to me and to our family. Love you babe!\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Always smooth sailing? Hardly. We\u2019ve had our share of turbulent wind and waves, dead-boring calm and serene times too. When we both said \u201cI do,\u201d before God and witnesses, we committed to sticking together in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer. God didn\u2019t promise years of perfection or no troubles. In fact, given the vows repeated, you\u2019d expect adversity and pain.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s our secret to success? Flexibility, compromise, faith, and commitment. The best laid plans of men don\u2019t always work out. I may have an idea or plan in my head, but that doesn\u2019t mean my husband will embrace the same idea. Time has a way of helping solve disagreements. If the two of us don\u2019t agree on a certain topic, sleeping on it (if the decision can wait) lends different perspective to the topic.<\/p>\n<p>Give-and-take remains key in a relationship. I can\u2019t always be right and neither can he. Respect the other person for their individual God-given talents and knowledge. I heard a quote once: \u201cIf both of us had identical qualities, one of us wouldn\u2019t be needed!\u201d\u00a0 If more time is needed, agree to disagree. It\u2019s never a good idea to go to bed angry though, \u201cDo not let the sun go down while you are still angry\u201d (Ephesians 4:26).<\/p>\n<p>Commitment: to bind by pledge or assurance, promise, obligation, dedication, devotion, steadfastness. Those can be frightening words\u2026maybe that\u2019s why many chose to avoid making a commitment. After all, it\u2019s much easier and less threatening to stick with someone when the tide is favorable and the way smooth.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important is faith. Faith in someone bigger and wiser than myself. I chose to place my faith in God: healer, Savior, and unconditional lover of my soul. As much as I love my husband, he cannot satisfy <em>every<\/em> longing of my soul. Steve is only human\u2014just like me\u2014full of selfishness, pride, and sin. When I place my trust in the unchangeable God, great things happen. Like being married 36 years today to my high school sweetheart!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Teresa Kay Lasher \u00a92011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe\u2026today Steve and I celebrate our 36th wedding Anniversary. I thank God for Steve\u2019s love, faithfulness, and long-standing commitment to me and to our family. Love you babe!\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,11,28],"tags":[84,232,349,363,476,519,647,909,1062,1079],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-family","category-god","category-sailing","tag-anniversary","tag-commitment","tag-ephesians","tag-faith-2","tag-health","tag-husband","tag-marriage","tag-sickness","tag-vows","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}