One Year

Our first anniversary is coming up soon! We will still be traveling with Evidence that weekend, but so glad we got to take a little vacation in June!

This was the view out our second story room window in the seaside inn where we stayed.



Beautiful sunsets!!!



We spent a couple days on the beach and got overly sunburned, but it was great. : )



All the learning of this year is a combination of deepening friendship and bliss and growing pains, sometimes baffling and sometimes exhilarating when God gives grace for new understanding of each other.

Thank you, Lord.

Marriage

I love being married. It's wonderful to grow and live life with someone you love. There is familiarity and comfort, knowing the two of us are working on life together. Marriage has been surprising to me. I didn't expect the huge gaps in communication that happen from time to time. Despite our completely different personalities, both of us are fairly easy-going. I guess I assumed we would never totally misunderstand each other! But it's so sweet to get to the place where those misunderstandings are bridged.

I'm also surprised as I watch us grow closer and love deeper even in such a short amount of time. I can't wait to see what God does in our life together as time goes on!

I love being married to this man and seeing God stretch us individually and together.

A couple months after we started dating...



Our wedding eight months after we started dating...


Honeymoon to Colorado...


In Mexico during our first Christmas!


I'm so grateful for this season of life!

Stereotypes

...may be something we bring on ourselves, but...

While browsing some Christian blogs the other day, I randomly came across this book, Incompatibility: Grounds for a Great Marriage. Although I assume the material is helpful for adjusting to life with someone of the opposite gender, my concern lies with the cover photo! Who are we being forced to conclude is represented by the ostrich on the left? ; ) Actually I think it's quite funny and sometimes true...

Fireproof

I'm listening to Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, which is eight minutes of minor chords and languishing strings. Kind of depressing, but it's beautiful and fits my introspective mood. : )

Today I saw the movie Fireproof with some friends. The focus of the movie is the marriage of the two main characters. I am challenged afresh to fight for and work on my marriage with humility and forgiveness, when I have one that is. : )

The characters clearly presented the Gospel within the storyline, so that was really cool. I haven't heard that in a theatre very much.

You should go see it!