Happy 4th Wedding Anniversary: My Encouragement to Ladies in Waiting.

When Josh was in the Academy, he sent me a song, “Shania Twain—You’re Still The One,” which made me break down in tears. I was in tears of gratitude to God because I had a core memory replay in my mind as if I was re-living the first time I heard that song. It was when I was about 6-7 years old, and my mother was driving my sisters and I to the Houston Children’s Museum for the day. I remember she turned the station from KSBJ on a commercial and put on Sunny 99.1, and this song began to play at the perfect timing. As I heard the song, I began to pray in tears to God, wanting to know and meet my husband. (Honestly, I was a hopeless romantic and always used to cry to God and pray over my husband, hoping to meet him soon. It was a phase that did not end until my daddy passed away 6 months before meeting Josh. But I ALWAYS knew that I was meant to be a wife and mother with the many years of imagination playing the part.) Anyways, the lyrics to this song as a kid reminded me of what my parents went through in their interracial marriage that was forbidden by family, which beautifully shaped the family I grew up having, and it was a repeat of what Josh and I went through time-to-time in our relationship. But because that day Josh was obedient to walk over to me in the SUB on campus while I was working to try to tell me the Gospel, (which I then told Him, “I already know my Father”), and after seeing and hearing God tell me then and there that he was my husband and we were going to have children… to Josh sticking around after I shared with him what God had told me only on our third encounter, I can praise God and say that His will was done, on earth as it is in Heaven.

Honestly, marriage is HARD. It is a lot of selflessness, serving, humbling experiences, commitment, PRAYING, apologies/ forgiveness, and transformation that I went through and continue to go through that I already thought I had until I got married and had children. But that transformation is what sculpts us to be more like Christ, drawing us near to our Father’s heart. Anyone who knows Josh knows that He is a man who will tell you the truth, whether you like it or not (The Truth= God’s Word).  And because of our love for God and his efforts in making our relationship second to our personal relationship with God, we have come far.

I honestly can’t believe today makes 4 years of marriage. A marriage and commitment not just to each other, but the one we vowed to that holds us together. Our FIRST center that brought us together on EVERY encounter is God (Abba). AKA Daddy, as you like to call Him.

I love you so much!

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Matthew 19:5-7