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34 Years

And Still in Love

by James Langston

standing the test of time

Foreword

he writer of Proverbs in 18:22 tells us that, He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And

obtains favor from the Lord.(New King James Version! Li"e a salmon swimming u#$stream

against the flow of the river, this Verse of s%ri#ture goes against the rushing flow of #o#ular

%ulture!

&

'ith a generation that is attem#ting to reefine marriage by reefining what a )marriage

#artner* is, an one that is more often than not by$#assing the %ovenant of marriage altogether,

there e+ists a great %hallenge for the hur%h!

&here is a %hallenge for the %hur%h to get ba%" in the river-s seat again, an ta"e hol of the

reins when it %omes to setting the agena i%tating the national is%ussion of the %risis in the

family!

&he tragey is that hristians seem to be the vi%tim of statisti%s rather than the e+%e#tion to

them! 'hile the national statisti%s on ivor%e in .meri%a still stubbornly hover near the /0

#er%ent mar", this statisti% trens the same in the .meri%an hur%h

or the young %ou#le, for the soon to be marrie %ou#le or for that matter, the %ou#le who

has been marrie for 3uite some time an %oul stan some )re$ins#iration,* 34 Years And Still

In Love, serves as the wise mentor in the hans of its reaer!

Pra%ti%al, wise, en4oyable to rea, James Langston, in his boo", ta"es the reaer ba%" to

those early romanti% ays of butterflies an giiness!

5ntertwining his testimony with the 'or, an showing that all along, 6o is the 6ran

7r%hestrator of our love relationshi#s, the reaer %an be assure . . . that He who has begun a

good work in you will complete it until the day of esus !hrist,Phil! 1: (New King James Version!

9ea it an be en%ourage!


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Introduction

"n a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has

become difficult and rare. #et, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this e$change have only been enhanced

(9obert e+ton

t seeme only yesteray that you were running aroun %hasing snails an li;ars< an now

you-re about to marry the man or woman of your reams< a #erson who in many ways is still

a stranger to you!

5.lthough%& #ears And 'till in Love is intene as a )survival guie* for marriages an

relationshi#s, it is efinitely mu%h more

5t-s a love story = a roa ma#, a %om#ass, a bea%on sus#ene in infinite time safely guiing

weary travelers through the une+#e%te e+tensities of life!

Chapters 1-3e+#lore why everyay %an an shoul be a new an ifferent ay of is%overy

in your marriage,

Chapters 4 and are hel#s an suggestions to that we offer to #arents whenever they fa%e

the )>* fa%tor in their #arenting uties: these are hel#s that mae a ifferen%e for us as #arents!

Chapter !is fille with tidbitsan nuggetsthat will hel# "ee# the )s#ar"* an e+%itement

alive in your marriage! Chapter "ta%"les the #ain of aultery an )what to o* an )what not to

o* when an if this ha##ens,

Chapters #-1$eal with "nowing your role in a marriage, the im#ortan%e of fa%ing storms

together an finally "eys to maintaining a healthy an e+%iting marriage!

5n ea%h #age you will fin answers to 3uestions an situations that have shi#wre%"e

%ou#les through the ages, (hat, we have to be together every minute)How could the man "

love be so irritating) *oes she e$pect me to fight her family battles) How do " deal with

unfaithfulness) !an it be that we really have nothing in common)Has he said +sayonara

to se$) -kay, weve gotten married. (hats ne$t) an Are we the only couple who argues

all the time)

?is%over your #re%ise coordinates of travel as you %arefully navigate through this

)battlefiel* %alle life!


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%ne

&e were 'estined to Love

And "saac brought her into his mother 'arahs tent, and took ebekah,and she became his wife/ and he loved her . . .(6en! 2@:A

o you remember those early ays of your roman%e when the very %osmos seeme to stan

still for the two of youB?Cour 4o"es were stale an even a bit %orny but she laughe anyway! Da%h time she s#o"e

your name, it soune as if a thousan Niagara-s were %hurning together = so #owerful, yet so

sweet

'henever your time %ame to say goobye, it felt as if a #art of you sto##e living! Cet, you

"new that in e+a%tly 12 hours, A20 minutes an @E,200 se%ons you woul be mae whole again

an that #art woul live again

Cou o#ene oors for her< you hel her han when %rossing the street an you even snu%" a

bite of her i%e %ream %one 4ust to see her ma"e that %ute wrin"le with her nose Cou were li"e

two magnets #ulling an rawing one another %loser an %loser together

7ur hans fit #erfe%tly together, so mu%h so with ea%h brief se#aration, 5 %oul sense a ri# in

the )s#a%e time %ontinuum* holing the universe of our hearts together!

'e were li"e leaves blowing in the win, not a %are in the worl: two sear%hing hearts that

ha somehow mira%ulously bumpedinto one another on this lonely roa of life!

.n now that our worls ha embra%e, 5 %oul not imagine a ay without her

'hen 5 sho##e, 5 saw her fa%e in the #rou%e se%tion, the eli se%tion an even behin the

sala bar 5 foun myself fille with %hilli"e e+%itement ea%h ay as 5 eagerly anti%i#ate that

evenings sharing time< a #ause to refle%t on the highs an lows of our ay!

5 so remember the enless hours of silen%e on the #hone an how we sim#ly listenedto oneanother-s hearts beating! 'e were together an that-s all that mattere!

7ur worls were fastly %olliing an it i not matter the %onse3uen%es, the 4ourney, or what

lay ahea< goo or ba< as long as e%ilia was waiting for me at my final sto#, 5 was ha##y to go

the istan%e


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Four

&or(in) to *e a Success+ul ,arent

0rain up a child in the way he should go1

and when he is old, he will not depart from it(Pro! 22:

henever the ay awns that our e#ita#hs are written, foremost they will say that we ha

the honor an #rivilege to #arent si+ wonerful %hilren< four girls an two boys!'.n now that that #art of our 4ourney is %om#lete, the aventures %ontinue as #rou

gran#arents to twelve si+th generation energy fille boys an girls

'hen e%ilia an 5 were busy #arenting our %hilren, 5 was always ama;e at the inherent

uni3ueness in ea%h %hil! . frown %oul mean a slight #ain or twinge, while in another that same

frown meant something totally ifferent

&han"fully we i not sim#ly lum# our "is together with the one si;e fits all a##roa%h

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