anniversary

with today being " encouragement for our husbands" day and this weekened being my anniversary, i thought i would share about that. this saturday is a big anniversary for us. 10 years of marriage. when i look back at how we began; all wrong, i am reminded of our redeeming God. without going into a long testimony we were 2 young people living life for the world, unmarried and having babies. thank you Jesus for your salvation. i laugh at the old us. we sure thought we were in love then. i laugh because we didnt even know what love was. oh yes, by the worlds standards we were in love and just doing what everybody else was doing. but after giving our lives to Christ, and growing together in God i can boldly say i love my husband more today then i did 10 years ago. i love him now as my head, provider, and father of my children. there are many things that shape a marriage. children, hardships, ups and downs. and we have been through alot in our 10 years. having 9 children has made for a busy (but fun) and challenging time. but being followers of Christ shapes how you handle each of these together as one flesh. im so excited because a friend has blessed us with an amazing anniversary gift. we get to go away together for a couple of days up in the hills. this is so special to us because we never had a honeymoon.

" so adam gave names to all the cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. but for adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and he brought her to to the man. and adam said, " this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh." gen. 2:20-24