Lennie & Victoria Shane
Married January 29, 1938
A man of few words, Lennie's silence is beautifully balanced by his wife Victoria's shining sense of humor.
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True love- everyone's searching for it. Singers sing about it. Poets write about it. Novelists weave stories about it. Artists immortalize it in a drawing, a painting, a sculpture. Filmmakers portray it in images larger than life.
But how do you know if you have it?
There are many ways for you and your spouse to express your love, many ways to show each other how deeply you care. You can say it with words, candy and flowers, with diamonds and gold. All these ways are wonderful, all should be used, but none proves your hearts to be true. Not one guarantees the veracity of your love.
The only way to know if you have true love is to see whether it stands the test of time. Has it endured hardship, boredom, and pain? Has it weathered life's busyness? Has it withstood the pressures of job, family, and home, the stresses of midlife and old age? Time alone will tell.
If you're just embarking on the marriage path, you'll know the level of your commitment to each other by the way you live out your lives together day by day, expressing your love in every possible way through respecting each other, encouraging each other, and serving each other minute by minute, hour by hour.
You determint whether the love you have is true over time. But you being now.
Let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love.
This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality.
1 John 3:18-19 msg
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