Today Is A New Day

Today I decided that I will start my new life! I'm excited and I'm bringing my husband along for the fun of it. For, you see, I've spent the past 2 years dodging him and finding all the things that were wrong with him and our marriage. We have been married 12, almost 13, years and I have to say that it has been a roller coaster ride from the get go. We met met from a personal ad in the newspaper. My father was worried about me, because I was a single mother raising a six year old boy and a work-aholic on top of it. He told me that as a woman and a mother, I was not created to live a life alone and then suggested that I look at the personal ads in the newspaper. He even had a couple of ads circled for me of local christian men. I was humiliated, but the fact was, I was lonely. It took me another couple of months before I grabbed a paper and called on a couple of ads. And "voila"; I met my husband and his 5 children. The fact is, I fell in love with his children first, and then fell in love with him. We had a few things in common, such as the love of the outdoors and baseball. Most of all, we wanted God in our marriage. He had already been married 3 times and I had been married 2 times. We were tired of failed relationships and our hearts were set on not failing again. So after 2 months of talking on the phone and dating, we got married. Now, you might think that it was an awfully short courtship, and, in fact, you are right. But when you have 6 kids and full time jobs, it's hard to get any personal/dating time in. We were both exhausted from staying up all night talking on the phone and then going to work during the days. We didn't want to move in together because both of us had gone that route before and it didn't work for either of us. So, we decided that we wanted to do it God's way and stay pure until we were married. Ergo, the short courtship.

I'd like to say that we got married and lived happily ever after with our six children who grew up to become pastors or doctors or some other noteworthy professions, but the fact of the matter is, this was just the beginning to our up and down life. God has brought us full circle through heartache, happiness, loyalty, friendship, commitment and too many other things to list in this opening blog. I was told that my life and marriage has been so unique that it is worth writing about, so I decided to take people's advice and start a blog.

Now that I set the framework, I will end today's blog with something positive, because isn't that what we all want in the end? A positive ending.

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." John 14:27