Twenty years of marriage!!! Twenty years of learning how to love better and fight harder in the best possible scenario. There is something truly amazing about having a covenant that takes precedence over personal wants and needs; a value that keeps you trying long after it is fun or logical only to break through into deeper levels of fun and fulfillment. It is unbelievable to have someone with whom you have shared your highest highs and lowest lows and they stick around. We have fought side by side through dark corridors and held each other through heart rending sorrow. We have laughed, and laughed, and laughed.
Tracy, you have been a safe place for me to be undone and redone and to make great exploits and I thank God for your character and kindness every day. I am thankful for you in the good times and still mind-blown that you have been up for adventure after adventure over these 20 years. I am in awe of your ability to release what He has done for what He is doing over and over again. I am humbled by your ability to let go of grief and malice and self justification over what has been stolen in order to take ahold of the good gift that is being offered. Your ability to trust Christ no matter what it looks like is magnificent and makes you more beautiful than even your face makes you. I further love your willingness and ability to welcome people into our family on an ongoing basis and treat them like our own for as long as they want or need us.
You have given me so much and you are truly my better 3/4. When I long for children, I long for your children. When I desire a home, I desire a home with you. When I think of travelling it is with you. I can't imagine doing this with anyone else. For better or worse. For richer or poorer. In sickness and in health. Til death... The old vows didn't make sense to me then. They do now. I do.
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