Happy 3 Year Anniversary My Darling Husband!

It has been 3 years since we first said "I Do." I can't tell you how many different meanings I found for that "I Do" promise I made back then. Here are a few I thought I'd share that I fought to learn our first year and our second year and still our third year of marriage:

I Do = .....

-I Will

-I Choose

-I Yearn

-I Cry

-I, with joy...

-I Fight

-I Choose

-I Forgive

-I Insure

-I Work

-I Never

-I Choose

-I Always

-I Forget

-I Burn

-I Can't

-I Try

-I Promise

-I Love

-And lastly, I choose... again.

My message to all of the married couples from this is that Love takes on a whole new meaning in marriage than it does in dating relationships, or with family members. You make a daily choice, to keep your promises to your spouse, and most important your promise to God. No matter what the struggle or the hurt.

Keep in mind, that with the ability to hurt and be angry so much at one person, comes the exact opposite ability to LOVE so deeply with all your heart, your soul, and with all your mind (Matthew 22:37). Marriage was created to model Christ's relationship to us. He can burn His anger and judgement on our actions, but His holy goodness, and forgiveness, brings us into a more intimate relationship with Him then we could even try and come close to having with our spouses.

"You my brothers were called to be free. But not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather to SERVE one another in LOVE." ~Galations 5:13

If you are married because you wanted someone to dwell and doat on you and make you feel good for the rest of your life... you got married for the wrong reason. You marry to share and serve each other with a selfless love that completes the emptiness humans are born with inside. Only in serving and being selfless do we truely feel free and full, and gloriously loved!

Happy Anniversary my Man, and hard worker! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for an amazing 3 years, that only gets better and better the more we learn how to love eachother! Thanks for never giving up on me! God isn't even close to being finished with us yet!