So this is the new year
I've spent the past few hours reading older entries, getting rid of a lot of entries etc.
Wow, what a crazy exciting journey it has been thus far. I wanted to update on this past year since I really haven't. There's not too much to update but here are some thoughts, and things.
So 2009-2010
So we have officially embarked upon 1 year of marriage. A lot of people told us the first year would essentially be one of the hardest. I didn't think it was possible because we've had some pretty rough ups and downs in the past, to which I thought man if we could get through some of those we can get through anything. This year was really hard, but also really amazing. I think our pastor who married us said the best and most relational thing I feel embarking on our one year. When you get married so often people use the term "oh it's the end of your life now" Phil stated to us once, this is quite the oposite if you approach your relationship the way it should be approached "This is the beginning of the rest of your lives it's just starting". I love my husband more than I did on the day I married him, and I'm happy to say that. I will only continue to fall more and more passionately in love with him. I learn so much about him everyday. Some things that make me laugh hysterically, others that make me want to strangle him to death haha, but through the ones i've learned that made me want to kill him I realized how to work and cope with them, just the same as i'm sure sometimes he's like "wow she's the cutest girl ever" and other times he would love to kill me. haha.
Do I ever regret my choice thus far? Not a minute. I can't imagine NOT growing old with this person, NOT growing old with this family. When I married Jamie, not only did I marry my best friend, but I married a giant family full of loving, and amazing people who look at me as if i'm their own sister. To which I'll quote one of his sisters lines that made me cry in my guestbook "I'm so happy that you chose someone that is so easy to care about". It goes both ways incredibly. They are so easy to care about.
My family is lovely and amazing too, don't get me wrong but i'm just trying to relay that a marriage is never just the two people, although at the end of the day it's just you and them, you usually marry into family. Some have it good, and some have it bad. I have it very very good.
Anyways, so amazing year thus far, and I'm only more and more excited for what God is going to do this year. We've started leading young adults in our church. Our church has come to be this community of people I crave every day. I used to go to a rather large church with lots of my friends, it seemed more about hanging out with each other than really being fed, and leaving and being the church to other people. I did learn a lot there. Phil is by far one of my favorite speakers in this city, but I feel like there's a certain point you get to in your journey where you can't JUST learn anymore, and you actually have to live that out and serve in whatever way you can. "A time for harvest, and a time for sowing" (is the way I look at it).
I'm still learning things all the time, I'm a sinner, and I'm far from perfect, but I'm blessed, and happy.
We recently moved into a townhouse, that is beautiful. I feel more at home here.
We had to cut a lot of things out in our lives that weren't helping us grow, but I only pray that God will continue to strengthen us and help us to not regret the choices we've made but to move on from them. It's hard making choices that hurt your emotions but you know God has a greater goal with all of it.
Other than that i'm not sure what else to say. I'm freezing, listening to north cote, and ready for whatever this year brings me. I hope and pray that I will do it diligently, and humbly all in the name of Jesus.
xo.
Wow, what a crazy exciting journey it has been thus far. I wanted to update on this past year since I really haven't. There's not too much to update but here are some thoughts, and things.
So 2009-2010
So we have officially embarked upon 1 year of marriage. A lot of people told us the first year would essentially be one of the hardest. I didn't think it was possible because we've had some pretty rough ups and downs in the past, to which I thought man if we could get through some of those we can get through anything. This year was really hard, but also really amazing. I think our pastor who married us said the best and most relational thing I feel embarking on our one year. When you get married so often people use the term "oh it's the end of your life now" Phil stated to us once, this is quite the oposite if you approach your relationship the way it should be approached "This is the beginning of the rest of your lives it's just starting". I love my husband more than I did on the day I married him, and I'm happy to say that. I will only continue to fall more and more passionately in love with him. I learn so much about him everyday. Some things that make me laugh hysterically, others that make me want to strangle him to death haha, but through the ones i've learned that made me want to kill him I realized how to work and cope with them, just the same as i'm sure sometimes he's like "wow she's the cutest girl ever" and other times he would love to kill me. haha.
Do I ever regret my choice thus far? Not a minute. I can't imagine NOT growing old with this person, NOT growing old with this family. When I married Jamie, not only did I marry my best friend, but I married a giant family full of loving, and amazing people who look at me as if i'm their own sister. To which I'll quote one of his sisters lines that made me cry in my guestbook "I'm so happy that you chose someone that is so easy to care about". It goes both ways incredibly. They are so easy to care about.
My family is lovely and amazing too, don't get me wrong but i'm just trying to relay that a marriage is never just the two people, although at the end of the day it's just you and them, you usually marry into family. Some have it good, and some have it bad. I have it very very good.
Anyways, so amazing year thus far, and I'm only more and more excited for what God is going to do this year. We've started leading young adults in our church. Our church has come to be this community of people I crave every day. I used to go to a rather large church with lots of my friends, it seemed more about hanging out with each other than really being fed, and leaving and being the church to other people. I did learn a lot there. Phil is by far one of my favorite speakers in this city, but I feel like there's a certain point you get to in your journey where you can't JUST learn anymore, and you actually have to live that out and serve in whatever way you can. "A time for harvest, and a time for sowing" (is the way I look at it).
I'm still learning things all the time, I'm a sinner, and I'm far from perfect, but I'm blessed, and happy.
We recently moved into a townhouse, that is beautiful. I feel more at home here.
We had to cut a lot of things out in our lives that weren't helping us grow, but I only pray that God will continue to strengthen us and help us to not regret the choices we've made but to move on from them. It's hard making choices that hurt your emotions but you know God has a greater goal with all of it.
Other than that i'm not sure what else to say. I'm freezing, listening to north cote, and ready for whatever this year brings me. I hope and pray that I will do it diligently, and humbly all in the name of Jesus.
xo.