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Well last Sunday was our wedding anniversary.  Five years.  Five long, tough, challenging years. It’s not been easy by anybody’s standards but I am pleased to say that I love my wife more now than I did six years ago when I asked her to marry me. 

Back then I’m not sure I even knew for sure that I loved her, all I knew was that I was with someone that I couldn’t possibly be without.  Seems odd really looking back.  At the time it made perfect sense and over the years I’ve learnt just what love really is and how much I do love her (and yes I’ve learnt to share, most things, as well). 

They say that you grow in the hard times.  Well I think that that is true for a marriage.  We have grown through the hard times, but only because we are committed to this marriage and committed to upholding the promises we made to each and to our God before our God.  I think that the fact that we made our promises before each other in front of the alter of our church before our God has been the best foundation we could have given this marriage because he has been the glue.  The glue that has kept us together, fighting every challenge together, refusing to fail together, suceeding together.

In this day and age, and no disrespect meant to anyone, it’s too easy to bail. To jump ship when the storms of life break on the horizon. Looking back at the last five years there have been plenty of opportunities for both of us to jump when the storms of life have hit.  I think the fact that we have put Him first has kept our marriage going.  In the toughest times it takes an act of will to keep going. When you take that stand for something you need it to be grounded in something.  Ours is grounded in our trust in our God and in our need to be obedient to him.  One of the by products in that he has been glue has kept us together so that we are continually fighting for a common purposes.  The survival of our marriage.  Even when we’ve been at loggerheads with each other this common purposes has still been there.

So here’s to marriage, one of the greatest things God has given us. Here’s to him being the glue in our marriage. Here’s to fighting every storm together, and here’s to my wife.  Thank you for an extraordinary five years and here’s to plenty more.