November 2, 2012

• {sixteen years of together}

  
  we celebrated our sixteenth anniversary yesterday!

  so amazing to stop and look back on all God has done..
  every single step of the way.
  right up to even this very morning when we argued and then.
  once again learned that grace always triumphs when we look beyond ourselves to Him.

  i really am in awe at the change in our relationship even from six months ago.
  God has repaired and healed and fused our hearts together as i feel they used to be in the good ole days!
  where i once again feel that sweet closeness and friendship and love. happiest when with him.
  
  there’s lots of verses and songs i’ve called “ours” along the way..
  but when i think of our marriage right now i think of this verse. and this song!

  
  
  i’d say alot has changed in sixteen years.
  like the fact that i’m 20 pounds heavier for him to hold like in these pictures!!
  and that maybe the place we thought we’d be at by now as far as finances or stability or dreams isn’t that.
  the expectations are different. and many of our beliefs.

  but some things haven’t changed.
  like the fact that we’re committed to this thing. in it together. wanting deeper. stronger. more!
  to not just have a marriage we tolerate, but ever working to create a marriage we enjoy.
  and knowing, even more so now than i did on that day sixteen years ago, that only happens one way..
  as we continue to look to The One who brought us together to begin with.
  who has kept us together.
  and holds us together through it all.
  
  thank you Father for the journey of these sixteen years!

  
   
  
  amber.

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