Steadfast Love

My husband, Rob, and I recently visited Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks for our wedding anniversary. How does one condense such a diverse experience into a single blog? I guess it’s a lot like trying to fit twenty-three years’ worth of marriage sentiments into a single card.

Or trying to live inside a single log.

Marriage is an eye-opening experience.

It requires two sets of very different eyes.

And seeds of love:

One plucked from each heart.

The seeds grow,

mature

and make more seeds

so that even if an interloper tries to steal the seeds—

tries to consume the love—it doesn’t work.

Because love hangs on.

Love knows how to go through dry periods.

How to cling to its foundation through all sorts of weather.

Until it is full and lush again

undeterred by any scars. That’s just the way steadfast love is.

Photos © Sondra Sula.

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