I am so excited for today! Today my husband and I are celebrating 5 years of marriage together. I know to some five years is no big deal. But to me five years is a big deal. Seriously, in today's world it feels like we have actually conquered something. With how I use to be 5 years ago it is also amazing to look back and see how much has changed. I know no matter how much Matt loved me when he married me there are times he never would have stayed married to me for this long without God helping to give him patience and wisdom to deal with me and all my weirdness and strange ways and stubbornness.
This isn't me writing to brag about five years of marriage, though I think any couple has a right to brag when they reach the mile stone of another year survived together, but I am writing to say that without us having both turned our lives over to Christ's direction a few years back and letting him rule our home we would have not made it to five years, at least not happily celebrating five years.
I find it so fun that just yesterday, the day before we marked 5 years of marriage under our belts, I picked up this amazing book to read called the Sacred Marriage. Such a great book! It has really caused me to take a look at not only myself but more at how I deal with my husband, and what being married and committed to my husband for the rest of my life should really mean. Making it through the last five years has been great but part of me has worried that the next five years, because of who I am, would get boring. I am so glad for the new perspective God has shown me through this book. My marriage to my husband is just as much of a service and mission to Christ's cause as witnessing can be. God created Matt's and my marriage for a purpose and we made a promise to love and cherish each other in all phases and stages of life. My priority in my marriage is actually to emanate Christ, not just to my husband but, through our marriage may we show Christ love for the church to our children and those around us who are watching.
I am now a lot less nervous about becoming bored with the next five years but am looking forward to finding ways to enhance God's church through my marriage and also to find new ways each day to make my husband not only happy but also to help him keep growing in his own personal walk with God. This isn't just a goal to make it through the next five years. This is a goal to make it through life together and doing so in a holy, happy and honorable way that please God. There may be obstacles that come our way but I know they are to make us stronger together as a couple and closer to God so that through the struggles and the good times we can learn to properly show Christ's love for each other as Christ does for the church.
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