All who knew us said we would end up together
So similar in outlook and loving our Lord so vehemently
Our early years apart, studying on different land masses
Me in Ireland, our homeland, and you on the mainland, as time passes.
Our wedding day, with much gladness, the happiest we had known
To London took us, to settle and make our home
Children, jobs and many opportunities to build our lives with trust
Have filled our days with joy and hope between us.
Through trouble and heart ache we have been daily kept
And in the darkest hours, bitter tears have wept
As through the dark night of the soul our craft had almost sank
In the murky depths of uncertainty and the promise left pointblank.
Now, twenty five years on, we are still together
And happy and at rest with each others endeavour
To walk the Pilgrim pathway, as fellow travellers and to others show
The love of Christ and free salvation to every soul we know.
Some think of this as an achievement, but really it’s not
The road of life is filled with failure and wishing you had not
We do not overcome by effort, talent or purpose of our will
The battle was won for each of us on Calvary’s lonely hill.
Without you I would be nothing and struggling on alone
You, without me, lonely and long days with toil left forlorn
Our God providing and planning our lives in tandem
As lovers, friends and workers in his heavenly kingdom.
Workers together we labour in this world’s harvest field
Until together our troubles and trials to his love will yield
The next generation we pray to our God will cleave
Before this worlds weary treadmill we finally leave.
Marriage lasts only for life, we must someday part
Minds separated and love a divided heart
But one day at the marriage supper of the Lamb
We as one will live with our Saviour and in freedom stand.
