I {Still} Do

My husband and I celebrated 5 years of marriage last week. Some days it feels like I can barely remember my life before I said "I do" (although as my grandmother so graciously reminds me - we have nothing or her 60 years of wedded bliss!)... and other days it seems like just yesterday I was rushing to change into my Blockbuster uniform, so excited to get to work so I could see HIM.

"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen

There is no relationship like that of being married. It's such a beautiful, God-breathed design... part of His perfect plan for our lives. I am a person independent of my husband, but that person is fully complete in this man who I share my life with.

Here are some of the words I spoke on that lovely, love-filled day five years ago... I still mean every one of them, and am doing my best to walk them out everyday...

... I promise to be yours for as long as we both shall live. I make this promise to you this without reservation and with all the confidence and joy in the world because I know that YOU are the one God chose for me. You are an answer to prayer – you are all the things that I looked for and even the things I didn’t know I needed. In you I have found not only a partner but also my very best friend, my favourite person in the whole world and my closest confidante. I promise to always be these same things for you; to love you in all the circumstances of our lives – not just when it’s easy. I promise to always encourage and strengthen you and to help you become all that God has intended. I will always laugh at your jokes, and laugh with you and never stop having fun with you. I promise that I will be quick to forgive and quick to ask for forgiveness. I will strive to challenge you but I will also be willing to learn from you and to accept that I am not always right… although I may be… a lot of the time! I promise to not take you for granted, but to always remember how truly blessed I am and all of the things that have brought us to where we are today. I will thank God for you everyday and I will look to Him as the centre of our marriage and as the foundation upon which we stand. I will support you, respect you, honour you and most of all - love you, no matter what may come our way.

xoxo