Dan Haseltine (the lead singer for Jars of Clay) has written a wonderful short called “Longevity.” In it he observes his grandparents long-haul marriage, wonders about the state of marriage and commitment in the current generation, and concludes:
For people like my grandparents, who have lived long enough to feel the effect of carrying the accumulative weight of scars, life was about the fight. But what they remember most is the way burdens were lifted by laughter and how the fight was always interrupted by the joy of victory, and those moments, however fleeting, carried a sweet fragrance. They have lived in the trenches and on the mountaintops, and their story of life and marriage is worth describing. It is worth recounting. Theirs is a legacy that illuminates grace, mercy, pain and redemption. I hope more people from our generation will find this view of marriage to be worth the fight.
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