Thoughts on the best investment and how to make it!
Best investment we ever made!
4.5+ decades ago Elise A. Cavasin and I decided to make a longterm investment. It started out in an unsure, unfamiliar, and untested venue even with the understanding Elise had working for Merrill Lynch. My personal ability to spot a great or even a good investment was dismal at best, but I believed that this one would gain over a long period of time and end up having the biggest future gain of them all. So, having discussed it thoroughly on several occasions we decided to jump into it both feet and give it a try. The cost was small at first but required regular additional investment that at the time seemed "do-able". Sometimes we had a lot to "put in" and other times we didn't know, whether, we could sustain this enterprise.
But little by little, day by day, year by year, our original investment grew and grew, one step at a time, slowly making progress until today and will continue into the future. We are hoping that by the time we pass it will represent a significant gain for our Children and Grandchildren and be a constant benefit for them throughout their lifetime.
The idea of this investment came mid to late 1968 but never was acted upon until very late 1972. That's when the commitment was sealed, and the papers signed. That investment took form with the speaking of the words "I do". That investment was Love for each other through the Holy Vows of Matrimony. Two people with no experience at all became one in flesh, mind, and spirit to make this "investment" one "till death do us part".
Like any investment it took constant care, watching and nurturing, but the payoff has been Love, Joy, and Peace in the Holy Spirit. It’s dividends and interest were measured in progeny and replicated again in their progeny and will be such through the years as long as Love never fails.
Those moments witnessed by our Children of the Unconditional Love we shared over the years, and the proof that Love continued to grow, will be an example of our oneness joined on earth but made in heaven. Our Love has continually deepened, widened, flourished, even abounded by the grace of God and His “book of instruction’s” which represent a reflection of His Unconditional Love for us.
We have made steady deposits into this “Account of Love” and we have made a few “withdrawals” from the interests gained so as to enjoy “the fruits of our labor”, the same kind of Love investment that God made in us through His Son Jesus Christ.
Love is the prime investment in this life and continues in the next also.
Invest in things that time won’t corrupt or corrode. Love is a great start.
“For God so loved the world!”
Life is good.
Love is better.
Life with Love is best.
Love
J&E in Tn
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