October 8th, Our Two-Year Anniversary

Tim and I have been married two years today! It's amazing to look back and see how fast the time has gone, yet feel like I've known this man for twenty years.

First and foremost, I have to say that I am married to the most wonderful man in the entire world! I know other women say that about their husbands, but mine is truly the best. :) The most incredible part is that he loves ME. He always says that I only married him because God blinded me, but I believe it's the other way around.

Every day I thank the Lord for bringing him into my life. We met two and half years ago on March 8th at a Wed night Athey Creek Bible Study. My friend Tia introduced us and there was an instant connection we both felt. I wish I could go into both our histories leading up to this point because it is truly an amazing testimony of God's grace, restoration and redemption but I will have to cover that in another post.

I was at a point in my life where I had decided to be single and concentrate on the Lord with my whole heart. That time with Jesus was one of the most special and fruit-bearing chapters in my life. I had surrendered my dream of marriage at the foot of the cross, not expecting to ever get married. It was truly an Abraham and Issac moment because as I raised the knife of surrender, the Lord picked up my dream, dusted it off, healed its wounds from years of mistakes and sin, made it shine like the sun and gave it back to me in the form of my husband, Tim.



So, when I met Tim that night I spent a lot of time in prayer, seeking the Lord's will. I didn't even want to sit anywhere near him at church before I had heard from the Lord. We both felt it like a bolt of lighting but each of us wanted to do the right thing in the sight of God. Even in the midst of waiting on the Lord, though, God was writing the most beautiful love story. The second time we saw each other at church, Tim came up to me and said" I have been thinking about you and praying about you a lot. I know that I want you in my life I just don't know if it will be a friendship or more but I can't stop thinking about you. I just wanted you to know." Wow. I went home and called my mom and told her I met a REAL man. :) Not one that played it cool or played games with my heart, but one that came right out and told me that he wanted me in his life in some way or another. To this day I still value how direct and honest Tim is and how it's strengthened not only the communication in our marrige, but the respect as well.

Anyway, our first date was about a month later and after that the rest is history. I'm not one to believe in "love at first sight" but I can tell you that the feeling of knowing he was the one that everyone was talking to me about for so long, finally came true in the beautiful blue eyes of my sweet Tim. There was no denying it.

After he went with me and my family to Colorado and was able to meet my ENTIRE extended family (which is incredible because I haven't seen some of them for 10 plus years!), he proposed to me the day after we came back after he had spoken to my father. We were married just 5 short months later.

The lesson here for me was that when you let the Lord take control of something in your life, even if there is some fear that things won't turn out exactly as you want them to, you can trust that he will knock your socks off. What he can do in the drivers seat of your life is SO much better than anything you can ever try to make happen yourself or imagine. Take it from someone who knows!

So, today we celebrate two years together and I am looking forward to many more together with this wonderful man: my soul mate, best friend and so much more.

I love you Timmy.