According to our "knot" website, we have been married 505 days. This morning I found a mix CD that James made for me when we were dating. Yep first track...Foxy Lady! I couldn't help but smile and begin to reflect on this relationship we've committed to. It is important to reflect, to remember. Here are are some of those (always more):
1. no matter how much you prepare, there is always mystery and things that can only be understood by experience.
2. at the end of the day, there is the comfort of his warm body under the sheets.
3. love and pain both exist...it is inevitable that we hurt each other as well as extend grace.
4. it is a choice to communicate my internal world.
5. laughter cuts through defenses.
6. we are companions, not saviors.
7. i do trust him!
8. the smallest disagreements speak to a larger picture.
9. sex is always more than sex.
10. a wedding is also a funeral...each day i am faced with dying to my selfishness...and that is hard.
I love this video. It reminds me that I married a silly nerd just like me! Laughter is essential and good food for the soul :)
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
~Henri Nouwen
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Two words... LOVE IT! Thanks for your transparency. You're a keeper!
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