Prayers for celebrations and milestones

Celebrating an anniversary

For birthdays, anniversaries, and the days worth marking.

Also for anniversary · wedding anniversary · years together · marriage milestone · silver anniversary · golden anniversary · celebrating our marriage · vow renewal · love through the years · thankful for my spouse

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, World English Bible
Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.
Song of Solomon 8:7, World English Bible
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
1 Corinthians 13:7-8, World English Bible
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:18, World English Bible
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Mark 10:9, World English Bible
For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
Psalm 100:5, World English Bible

A prayer

Original writing, not a quotation of Scripture.

Lord, another year together. We've come through good seasons and hard ones, some arguments we'd rather forget, and more ordinary kindness than anyone saw. Thank you for holding us together when our own strength wasn't enough.

Thank you for the person beside me. Renew our love for the years ahead, keep us patient and playful, and let our marriage keep pointing to your faithfulness. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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