Wonka Wisdom

"The most important thing we've learned

So far as children are concerned

Is never, never, never let

Them near your television set

Or better still, just don't install

The idiotic thing at all. . .

They sit and stare and stare and sit

Until they're hypnotized by it,

Until they're absolutely drunk

With all that shocking ghastly junk. . .

'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,

'But if we take the set away,

What shall we do to entertain

Our darling children? Please explain!'

We'll answer this by asking you,

'What used the darling ones to do?

'How used they keep themselves contented

Before this monster was invented?'

Have you forgotten?

Don't you know?

We'll say it very loud and slow:

They used to read.

They'd read and read and read and read and then proceed

To read some more."

- Roald Dahl

'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'

"Luck" has had nothing to do with it...

We renewed our vows to each other this St. Patrick's Day, after 10 years of marriage and surviving more than a couple of marital crises...

My Beloved, this is my covenent to you and our God:

I will be faithful to God by seeking His truth and guidance daily

I will be committed to honesty and integrity.

I will connect regularly with God-fearing men in our community to help strengthen my faith in the Lord.

I will be committed to maintaining sexual purity and obeying His commands.

I will be faithful to you, Beloved, by loving you as modeled in Ephesians 5, "just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her to make her holy..."

I will love you as my own body and self.

I will continually lift you up in prayer, and will pray with humility, out of submission to God, so I may admit when I'm wrong.

I promise to continue taking spiritual leadership in our home as God has placed me as your head.

And, I will be proactive in planning for our future together, and the future of our children.

I love you!

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My Lover, my Husband:

My promise to you is to--first and foremost--be faithful to our Lord God.

I will try to always be teachable, keeping a soft heart toward God.

I will strive to understand His Word, listen to His voice, and always be obedient.

I promise to be faithful to you emotionally, physically and spiritually, regarding you as my head, submitting to you in everything as to the Lord.

I will continue in my quest to be a wife of noble character, so that everything I do will bring glory to God and will bring good to you all the days of my life...

I love you!