On Tuesday morning (Dec. 30), Bible teacher Beth Moore reflected on reaching her 47th wedding anniversary. “Making it to this day each year is as much about God and me as [about husband] Keith and me,” she posted on social media.
Moore, founder of Living Proof Ministries, emphasized that she has no marital advice to offer, writing, “We are not your examples.” But the 68-year-old bestselling author wrote poignantly about husband Keith—and about choosing to remain together for decades despite being “broken people adept at not showing it.”
Forty-seven years ago today Keith Moore and I stood at the altar and said “I do” — it was that back then, not “I will” — to a future we knew, like all couples, utterly nothing about. We were broken people adept at not showing it, like vases with a thousand hairline fractures…
— Beth Moore (@BethMooreLPM) December 30, 2025
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In her 2023 memoir “All My Knotted Up Life,” Beth Moore described the childhood trauma, pain, and PTSD that she and her husband brought to their marriage. “Baggage attracts baggage,” she said during a Q&A session last year. “[Keith] was so cute that I could hardly bear it and was probably as messed up as I was,” Moore said, describing how they met in college.
Despite weighty challenges, the pair “just keep falling back in love,” Moore said in 2024. She noted that her ministry to women probably would have looked much different if she had been in an easier marriage.
Now 68, Moore reflected on saying “I do” to “a future we knew, like all couples, utterly nothing about.” She and Keith were “like vases with a thousand hairline fractures still holding it together in a sturdy display case,” she wrote today.
“The thing about marriage is that it’s too immediate, too close, not to expose the real you, not to ultimately bring out the worst in you,” Moore explained. “Too intense not to tap the fractures hard and often enough to make them tremble and, well, collapse. But maybe with people like Keith and me, that was the point.”
Referencing the Genesis 32:22-32 account of Jacob wrestling with God, Moore continued:
Blessed are you if you have the God of Jacob for your help. The God who renames you by a distant-future…only heaven can see. The God who picks a fight with you in the long dark night to see if you’ll let go. To see if you’ll have guts enough to ask him to bless you. Then sends you forth into the horizon to yet another unknown day, the sun rising to warm your night-chilled body, the road rising to meet your limping gait.
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