Meals as a Mrs. ~ Impossibly Easy Turkey Club Pie

I made this dish, the Impossibly Easy Turkey Club Pie, from Betty Crocker right before school started back up for the fall semester.  It did come out slightly dry so next time I would add a large can of creamed corn to it!  I also increased the amount of cut-up cooked turkey from 1.5 cups to 2 cups.

 

Marriage Poem: The Art of Marriage

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Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens.
A good marriage must be created.
In the art of marriage the little things are the big things…
It is never being too old to hold hands.
It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once a day.
It is never going to sleep angry.
It is at no time taking the other for granted;
The courtship should not end with the honeymoon,
it should continue through all the years.
It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.
It is standing together facing the world.
It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.
It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude
of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.
It is speaking words of appreciation
and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.
It is not looking for perfection in each other.
It is cultivating flexibility, patience,
understanding and a sense of humor.
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.
It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.
It is finding room for the things of the spirit.
It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.
It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal,
dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.
It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner.
It is discovering what marriage can be, at its best.

The Art of Marriage by Wilferd A. Peterson, published in THE NEW BOOK OF THE ART OF LIVING, Simon & Schuster, New York, © Wilferd Arlan Peterson, 1962, 1963; ©Lilian Thorpe, 2004. 

I love the comparison of marriage to art in the above poem.  Adam and I are continually needing to cultivate and craft our marriage covenant and I love the idea of the thought of us as artists with paintbrush in hand as we splash color across the blank canvas painting the picture of our lives together.  Sometimes, one of us may make bolder strokes or use brighter pigments (let's face it, that would be me) while the other may opt to focus on the fine lines and provide details that might at first glance be missed by the viewer but upon deeper inspection would be brought to light.  I love that we're both artists in creating the marital masterpiece that lay before us and hope we can glorify God's majestic beauty through our meager attempts at artfully showing God's love through our actions to one another and others outside our union.