Happy Anniversary!

Today we celebrate 5 years of marriage! August 15, 2015 I wasn't a blogger just set, so let me tell you about it.....

November 2014, I came to see Josh after work. If you know how my work days went, you'd know I was usually tired and just wanted to relax after work. He told me we were going somewhere. He asked me if I wanted one of my friends to come " which I thought was pretty weird", considering he just asked me if I wanted to go on a date.

One thing we used to love to do was sit on the rooftop at the airport and watch planes, so that's where we were headed. I was really hungry and got upset because I wanted to go and watch planes afterwards, but he insisted. When we got to the elevator I was still going on and on lol. It was night by now by the way. The doors to the elevator opened and bright lights came on and I heard singing. It was my friends, they were singing Bruno Mars " Hey Tina, Josh is gonna marry you".

There was my family, my parents and my close friends. A moment I will never forget. I quickly forgot that I was hungry and suddenly so emotional lol. But yet so excited and happy.

I'll have to share my wedding story another time, so let's fast forward to 5 years later................

Imagine having one person that you get to personally do life with. One person that gets to see the parts of you that no one else does. One person that first hand sees you at your best and sees you at your worst. One person that cheers for you when you’re doing great, and encourages and helps push you in the right direction when you fall short. One person that you can go and talk to when things are just not good and they know what to do. One person who you don’t have to pretend with. One person who understands that they are not perfect, but submits to the one who is.

You see in 5 years of marriage, I’ve been blessed to have this one person. Are things always perfect? No. But the one thing that hasn’t changed is Christ in our lives. You see before two become one together, they have to be one individually. With themselves? No, with Jesus. The word “I “doesn’t change when you get married, it changes when you say yes to Christ, because your life no longer becomes just about you. “Love the Lord with all of your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself”. It’s when you experience and surrender to the unconditional love of God that you are not only able to love him back, but love yourself and those around you.

You see this perfect love is contagious and as I’ve said before, marriage is the daily perfecting place for that. You learn how to really love someone else the way that Jesus loves you. While marriage isn’t for everyone it is definitely for me and I’m filled with so much gratitude. There’s so much that I could say but one of my favorite songs puts it best

“ The goodness of God”. I’m honored to be a wife, a friend and a part of a purpose that’s helping us grow together.

In a great way 5 years feels like 50, but when 50 gets here it will feel like 5 because I’ll still be loving you like we just met! Happy anniversary :)