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Anniversary eve

Tomorrow Asia and I celebrate 22 years of marriage. I was 23 years old, naïve, hard-headed, determined, and pretty sure I knew how life should go. He was (two days from turning) 27, optimistic, confident and controlled. We were just a couple of goofy kids. I look back on those two people and am amazed at how God has used our marriage to mature us and create true union . I look at our lives now and cannot begin to tell you the ways I've loved and been loved over these 22 years. But I'll try today, because I want to honor this miracle of life together. I came into marriage with a pretty entitled attitude... that it was just what good Christian kids did... they got married (virgins, of course), had kids, grew them up, sent them to church camp and youth group, served in the church, never straying. Steady. Stalwart. Faithful. Asia came into marriage knowing what he wanted but having never seen the kind of steady example I took for granted. His childhood offered him l