To keep a vow does not mean to keep from breaking it. If that were the case, marriage vows would be broken the day they were made. This is where a vow differs from a mere promise or resolution. A resolution, once broken, must either be forgotten or made again.
But a vow retains its power and validity irrespective of conduct.
It is not like the signing of a legal contract and not like any other form of human promise. A person cannot promise to love another person; he can only vow to do so.
A vow is a confession of inadequacy and an automatic calling upon the only adequacy there is, which is the mercy and power of God.
To keep a vow, therefore, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.
It might almost be said that the sign of a vow being kept is the realization of how far one is from keeping it. In a very real way, the vow keeps the man rather than vice versa.
This is what I believe. I played my wedding song this evening - "Always and Forever" by Heatwave. It upset the kids terribly. They really loved that song with it's meaning.
The real life...
M-48/XH-48 M=25/T=28 years Ds-24,22/S-18 D - 3/11 A Day at a Time
