Milestone

My hubby and I celebrated 15 years of marriage a few weeks ago. I couldn't let the opportunity pass without reminiscing a little about that 19th of August in 2000. It was a day in my life of walking from one era of life, singlehood, into the arms of the man that God designed and formed to be my husband. God has a plan for every aspect of our lives. Nothing is out of his control. No moment in our lives is a mistake or a mishap. As I danced a little jig as the sun rose on that beautiful day, I had no idea what God had in store for my life. For my husband's life.

What I do know is that God had an idea. He had a beautifully, well thought out plan for each of our lives. This plan has played out in a way that though we're not the same people that we were on the day that I walked an aisle and took my man's hand, we committed to loving each other until death do us part. The journey has gone so fast. It's as though we've blinked and fifteen years has passed us by and we're in a place of still changing and growing more into the image that God is moving us to become. God has used life experiences, our children, and simply our own personal differences, to draw us together to become more... One.

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit (2 Co 3:18).

 

I'm thankful that fifteen years ago, my hubby didn't just say 'yes' to me, he also said 'yes' to commitment. Yes to the struggles that may lay ahead, yes to moments of not understanding me yet still willing to hear me out, and yes to our love no matter what that love may entail.

 

For better or for worse.

 

May our love be an image that shines forth the Lord's glory.