Skip to main content

Thoughts on marriage.

Asia and I do a lot of pre-marital mentoring with couples from our church.

After a session with these couples, I always find myself overflowing with gratitude.

Thankful for my husband and how the years have shaped us into the people - the family - we are today.

While it's still hard for me to swallow that somehow we became the 'older, wiser' couple who can now mentor others, I acknowledge that we have come a long way. Over the almost seventeen years we've been married, we've settled into what I consider a very sweet, comfortable rhythm.

I know this man.

And he knows me.

We seldom fight anymore. We can predict each other's behavior with uncanny accuracy. And we become better friends with each passing year...

Tonight when we go to bed, I know his hand will rest on my hip - like it always does.

And I will go to sleep with a thankful heart.

Thankful for this man God gave me.

Thankful for the way our rough edges have been made smooth over the years.

Thankful for each and every day I get to be by his side.

I'm a lucky girl.

Comments

  1. Lorraine9:21 AM

    ditto

    ReplyDelete
  2. Andi12:22 PM

    I hear ya! I cherish the relationship we have now after all these years. Finally I think emerging out the other side a bit smoother! :) I struggle with the "older and wiser" portion as well, in our marriage as well as accepting that I am that "older and wiser" mom in the nursery now, giving advice to the young moms. Ack!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Mom8:10 PM

    An almost 49 year ditto here !

    ReplyDelete
  4. Susie4:39 AM

    THis is such an encouragement for me. I hope the Lord will bless our marriage in years to come as He has yours :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I love it when people talk back...

Popular posts from this blog

Are you ready for this?

How did it get to be Wednesday? Seriously. There aren't enough hours in the day - even when you're up at 2:00 am. And no - I didn't get up at 2:00 this morning. I slept all the way until 5:00! Anywho - I decided I needed something new to blog. Something to shake you all out of your 'thoughts from the deep recesses' stupor. Something to get your blood pumping and your fingers tingling. Something to inspire long and meaningful comments. From you. My beloved readers. It's a new weekly Thoughts From the Deep Recesses feature. It's "Getting to Know you Wednesday" Now this could either be lots of fun, or it could just totally flop, and I could go to bed crying because my blog readers are a bunch of takers who only come here to read and never interact. Like a piece of fresh fruit, you squeeze the juice out of my hard-written and well thought out posts and then you toss them aside, wandering on to the next blog with a simple click of your mouse. You read ...
19 comments
Read more

Phlumpyschlumpy.

Good morning, peeps. It's Friday. There's frost outside this morning. *FROST!* This week has been ridiculously chilly. I'm having mixed feelings about blogging lately. Mostly because I feel like all I've been doing is whine about being tired. Or overwhelmed. And because comments are lacking. And because I can't seem to think about anything to write about except Tejan. And because some of the thoughts I'm having are too private for the blog - or too repetitive. Or too unformed to turn into actual words you all could understand. So I'm struggling a bit. And yet, I'm committed to documenting the process I'm in. So I'll keep writing when the words come. And when they don't, like this morning, when I looked at that intimidating blinking cursor and my mind went blank and I started to break out in a cold sweat and began by talking about the weather... well, then, I'll just gracefully (or not so gracefully) back out of the room... tail between m...
21 comments
Read more

It came out of the faucet that way.

It's been months since I've had a "Getting to Know You Wednesday." Life's been a little crazy. So today, when life is a little bit calm and I've got the least chaotic week I've had for ages, I thought I'd jump back in. So today, if you leave me a comment telling me your most favorite-ist movie line ever, I'll enter you in a drawing for your very own copy of Josh Groban's new Christmas CD - Noel . It's a good one, folks. Classic holiday music from such a wonderful vocalist... you'll like it, I promise. I just want one movie line. Not your three favorite... not a paragraph. Just one line. The one you find yourself repeating. The one that makes you laugh every time. Your very favorite movie line of all time. And if you're the first person to name the movie my title is from, you'll get an extra entry in the drawing. Now, let's hear it.
23 comments
Read more