Anniversary Trip

We have made it to the 7 year mark. It feels like a milestone in some way. You go through those blissful years of being married, and getting use to living together, and making the marriage everything that you dreamed that it would be. You also go through those times that are hard, for each couple I am sure it is something different, or who knows it is probably rooted in the same issue, but that isn't what my post is about. We celebrated in a fashion that we have agreed would be a way to ground ourselves from year to year. We go spend a weekend together. Now that might include a cow sale, but it is time that we get to have together just to recenter ourselves. This year we went over to Palestine, and stayed in a great bunkhouse out in the middle of the piney woods. It was so quiet and peaceful.



We had planned on riding the train that goes from Palestine to Rusk....but on this day the schedule was a bit different, and it wasn't running from Palestine to Rusk , but the other way around. No worries, it led us to a small town festival going on, and we got to see the engine on the turn table....I think that is called something else, but that is what my pregnant brain remembers it as.



Once again I didn't get a picture of us, I am getting really bad at this. But we did get a picture of a black squirrel. I know that isn't what you were thinking I was going to say, but this little creature really caught me off guard.



I will leave you with a couple of the verses that were included in our wedding ceremony. Although I don't remember much from that day, what I do remember is the same love that I had for that man then is even a greater love today as we have grown and changed. I can't wait to experience the rest of the years we have together by the grace of God.

Ephesians 5: 25-32
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one over hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church- for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery- but I am talking about Christ and the church."

Matthew 22:37-39
"Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ' Love your neighbor as yourself.'"