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THE POEM BELOW WAS WRITTEN FOR

 

MY WIFE –

 

MARTHA SCARBROUGH BRYAN

 

 

TODAY – – – WE’VE BEEN MARRIED

 

FIFTY (50) YEARS.

 

 

KNOT  TIED  BY  LEVI W. WHISNER

 

and  J. D. WEBB, Sr.

 

 

MARYVILLE, TENNESSEE

 

– 1509 JEFFERSON AVE

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                  Golden  Days

           

   H  How can one hope to ever present, 

   A  All that’s happened, event to event?      

   P  Pretty high school girl, Winton Woods “date.”

   P  Pretty Tennessee bride, life’s soul mate.

   Y  Young marriage?  Yes.  God, His wisdom sent.

 

 F  Finances were often super tight

 I  In spite of work and homemaker’s might.

 F  Finished (always wed) B. A. degree,

T  Teaching Hobe’s literature was to be.

I  It introduced us to the sea’s sight.

E  Eventually, teaching changed a bit,

T  The Bible became more life’s great “hit.”

H  Helping prepare workers for the field,

 

W  Wishing to increase the Master’s yield,

E  Ended in Friendsville – God’s timing fit.

D  Dining, other duties tired my wife,

D  Dual/triple “chores” consumed my own life.

I   In eighty-five pulled out for AK:

N  New roads, tent, campsites filled every day,

G  God’s given pleasures, only slight strife.

                 

  A  Andrew, Lincoln, Laura, and Heather

  N  Nested in Bryan’s nest together.

  N  Nice to each other, nice to Mom, Dad,

 I  In times when little was all we had.

 V  Vacations? – with long or short tether.

 E  Eventually each sought/found a mate.

 R  Rightly, their finds would be hard to rate,

 S  Seventeen “grands” bless Martha and me,

 A  A few near, but most “over the sea.”

 R  Rich we are – this side heaven’s grand gate.

 Y  Yield (all!) so you’ll live beyond the blue.

   

 B  Babe, you’re good for me, hope me you.

 A  Always ‘member, I’ve loved you always.

 B  Blessings on our own fiftieth days.

 E  “Edgar and Martha,” happy “young” two.                  

  – eab,6/23/11

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Everything $ will buy

 

 

– will someday go bye-bye.  

– eab, 6/26/11

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God gives grace – – – abundantly.

 

 

satan offers DISgrace – – –  abundantly. 

– eab, 6/23/11

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WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS?   

 

What manner of Babe is this born in the hay there?

What manner of Child visited by eastern kings?

What manner of Youth, in the temple seeing truth?

What manner of Man which a love-Dove wings?

What manner of King freeing all who where slaves?

                – eab, Jun. ‘80

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Robert Murray McCheyne (born 5/21/1813, Scotland, died 3/25/1843) is said to have written in a letter on this date, 6/26/1839 –

“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.”

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Maturity –

 

the ability to decide what is important

 

 

 AND to live by your decision.

– eab, 6/10/11

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GOD IS

More gracious than all His grace

More precious than all His riches

More spacious than all His space.

            – eab,6/23/03

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Two saved mates

 

 

can SAVE a marriage!

– eab, 1/30/09

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False religion says “Go.”

– go to Rome, to Mecca, to Ganges, to vortex points.

Christ says “Come.”

– “Come unto Me”

Mat 11.28 

– eab, 6/21/11

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