Jerry and I celebrated our thirty-third anniversary on March 15. Well, some might question the word "celebrated", and she might have even questioned it a bit. On that very day, Thursday, March 15th, I was in a meeting of the Regional Secretaries of the World Methodist Council.

But we celebrated, though I'll not tell you how! One thing I did was reread an anniversary gift of years back -- a book by Lois Wyse entitled Love Poems for the Very Married. If we were very married then -- we are very, very married now.

Like the football coach who had lost his fourth game in a row, and he returned home in deep depression. He refused to eat dinner, and stared vacantly at the living room wall. His wife tried to console him, "You still have me, Darling", she said."Maybe so," he brooded, "but there wa…