3 Years

Wow...how time flies! We have officially been married three years today. What an incredible blessing it is to be married to the most incredible guy in the world..total God thing. Anyhow, it doesn't seem like it is possible that only three years ago we were making the commitment to go on this unbelievable journey together. I look at what the Lord has shown us together over these years and am blown away by His goodness. He has been so gracious to us and allowed us to see Him in a bigger way through the gift of marriage.
He has shown us grace and mercy over the past three years in going through high points and some valleys, but throughout it all He has shown Himself in ways we did not deserve. We are grateful for every season we have experienced, and look forward to what is ahead.
It's such an encouragement to see where the Lord has me in scripture today.
John 15:12-17....
12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

For us it has been such an incredible journey...to become incredible friends, and then best friends....but to make it even sweeter is that God wants to call us His chosen friends...this simple passage blows me away, because I do not deserve such a title from the One who spoke "life" into existence. Thank you Jesus for the undeserving gift of your friendship!
Well, better get some stuff finished...but I leave this time with a smile as I look back over the past three years...oh how things have changed (for the good of course). I am grateful this day for a lot....Jesus, love, forgiveness, mercy, and marriage being at the top of the list today! We look forward to what is ahead in joyous expectation!