Pollywog Creek continues to be one of my favorite blogs (and not just because of the painted bunting). If you start reading this post, you will see why.
It’s amazing grace and merciful redemption, so I’ll gladly tell it again today.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
~ Ecclesiastes 4:9-12When Louis and I married on October 29, 1976, I was a 26 year old registered nurse working in radiation therapy at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, and Louis was a 27 year old Navy veteran, college student and a recovering alcoholic with just 9 months of sobriety. It was also our second marriage…to each other…and we were beginning again on shaky ground.
My mom introduced me to Louis in the summer of 1969. . .
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