Happy Ann-i-ver-sar-y Hope

[igotout]

21 joyous years!

I know you like poetry so her is one:

Love songs sung softly be voices of gold, thoughts of a poet through his poem gently told

Both speak of a love that through years has grown, both tell of two hearts that reap the joy they have sown.

Hope paints a picture that grows sweeter with years love sings a song that comforts all fears.

Through commitment and trust and tender sweet care, the vintage of your love is God's gift we now share.

Love you,

John

[Zixar]

Congratulations you guys! Good show!

[Wacky Funster]

Awwwwwwwwwwww...how sweet :)-->

What a guy!!!!

Happy Anniversary you 2 :)-->

[SocketCreep]

Happy Anniversary!!!

[ChattyKathy]

Happy Anniversary to a wonderful couple. May you have many days of gazing into the sunset together.

[FreshAir 99]

John & Hope,

Happy Anniversary!!!!!

Love you two. If you happen to be traveling to my state, please let me know. It would be wonderful to see you face-to-face.

Love you,

Fresh

[Kit Sober]

John and Hope,

Thank you for all the kindness you bring into the world.

God bless you always,

In all ways,

All your days,

Kit Sober

I love to hear you laugh -- God

[Shellon]

Happy Anniversary John and Hope

How wonderful; ain't marriage fun?

[suz]

I talked to Hope, she told me it was her anniversary, funny, it seems 21 yrs is a lifetime and it IS for some....

Joe married them, the ONLY guy she would even consider to give them their vows.

And they have stayed together thru thick and thin (no names mentioned here)

I think they are wonderful and the Teddy Roosevelt work applies here....

It is not the critic who counts

It is not the critic who counts;

not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,

or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,

whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,

who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;

because there is not effort without error and shortcomings;

but who does actually strive to do the deed;

who knows the great enthusiasm,

the great devotion,

who spends himself in a worthy cause,

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement

and who at the worst, if he fails,

at least he fails while daring greatly.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls

who know neither victory nor defeat.

--Theodore Roosevelt,

"Man in the Arena" Speech

(April 23, 1910)

But for them it is a Victory!!!

and glad to know them and share their VICTORY!

We know how much work Marriage is,

21 years is much to brag about.

suz :D-->

[Hope R.]

Thanks to all of you....

When John & I decided to get married, we weren't living in the same areas. I was living in West Palm Beach and he was living here in Tampa. We'd been dating for a little over a year.

Right before I was going to move to Tampa, I saw our Limb Coor - Gerald W. He didn't like John for whatever reasons he may have had, but we always got along fairly well.

He said "Why are you moving to Tampa? If it's to be with John Richeson, I hope you don't move there and get hurt. I think you can do better."

I told him that I didn't think I could do better. That I'd been dating (in the ministry) for 10 years and that I didn't think there was anyone out there better for me than John.

She shrugged his shoulders and said "okay - so you want me to do the wedding?"

It was all I could do to bite my tongue not to say there was no way on God's green earth I'd have him perform the ceremony when he thought I could "do better"!!! What NERVE!!!!

Besides - we both knew we wanted Joe Guarini to do it - he was happy for both of us!!!

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