UPCi Couple marks 75th anniversary
Agnews credit their faith, good communication for their longevity as a couple
Ray and Lillie Bell Agnew celebrated their 75th anniversary on Saturday with family and friends at New Life Pentecostal Church. The couple lives in Bridgeton.
By Scott Bandle
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:43 AM CDT
Ray and Lillie Bell Agnew say there's a secret to their 75 years of marriage, but they think nobody will believe what it is.
"We have never had a quarrel," said Ray, 95. "We've always talked things out and tried to serve God."
"We've had some disagreements, but we've never gone to bed mad," said Lillie Bell, 93. "People won't believe us, but that's the truth."
Whatever the reason, their marriage has worked. The Bridgeton couple celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary on Saturday, surrounded by family and friends at the New Life Pentecostal Church in Bridgeton.
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God has lavished his love upon me.
Whew....YES!!!!! But it was worse when we were just married. We've finally learned that it isn't bad to "agree to disagree", and no one really has to win.
Jeff and I couldn't be more opposite, but we've always been very committed to working things out, no matter what. We never made the big "D" an option, and we agreed it would never be mentioned in this house.
Also, as Sis. Alvear mentioned, it's important to resolve issues quickly, and not go to bed angry.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Whew....YES!!!!! But it was worse when we were just married. We've finally learned that it isn't bad to "agree to disagree", and no one really has to win.
Jeff and I couldn't be more opposite, but we've always been very committed to working things out, no matter what. We never made the big "D" an option, and we agreed it would never be mentioned in this house.
Also, as Sis. Alvear mentioned, it's important to resolve issues quickly, and not go to bed angry.
Bratty this describes our marriage too - in all points pretty much.
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
Whew....YES!!!!! But it was worse when we were just married. We've finally learned that it isn't bad to "agree to disagree", and no one really has to win.
Jeff and I couldn't be more opposite, but we've always been very committed to working things out, no matter what. We never made the big "D" an option, and we agreed it would never be mentioned in this house.
Also, as Sis. Alvear mentioned, it's important to resolve issues quickly, and not go to bed angry.
I figure it's because you are so oppinionated.
and because you are usally right!!!
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God has lavished his love upon me.
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