By chance or not – NOT!!!!
Definition: chance
Without plan; accidentally
Many people believe that things happen by chance, accidentally. For instance, when two people meet. They find an attraction to one another, start dating; they fall in love, and end up marrying. Well let me clear this up- there is a God that is in control of everything. Yes, whether you want to admit it or not, He is even in control of our lives. Now, let me clearify this a bit more. He has given us free will, hence that is why we so often find ourselves in a, well… mess
(for a lack of a better term).
Well this is a strange way to start a blog to tell my beautiful wife,
Happy Anniversary. But this is how my thoughts come out sometimes.
It has been 15 WONDERFUL years. Now don’t get me wrong, we have had some great mountaintops, and some very low valleys. But our confidence and love for one another comes from trusting the one that is always in control-GOD. This why I can say it has been 15 wonderful years. He has always placed us in the palm of His hands.
We did not meet by chance. God had a plan for our lives. This is the total opposite of the definition that you see above. We both come from divorced families. Step parents, living with relatives, the uncertainty of tomorrow, and all the junk that comes from the mess of divorce. But looking back now, I remember sitting in my bedroom at the age of 8 yrs old and asking the big question – Is there really a God out there? If you are out there God, please place a girl in my life, when I am old enough, that loves me the same as I love her. I strongly believe that is when He placed Jennifer and I on a collision course to meet 10 yrs later. You see, even at the age of 8, I had free will. I could have told God: forget you, forget love, or I could have not acknowledge the fact that I needed Him.
His love and mercy for us is so great, that on this side of heaven, I do not believe we can fully understand it. I strayed away, and stumbled & fell. But that prayer was still on His heart. Jennifer and I met 2 months before we graduated high school. Together we decided to fully trust God with our lives, and we were married April 2, 1994. God blessed us with two beautiful girls. (side note: they are as beautiful as their momma- inside & out)
And here we are 15 years later celebrating our 15th year together.
(technically 18yrs, we dated for 3 yrs)
I love Jennifer more today than did the first time I met her. Not because I loved her less 15 years ago, but because God has given and entrusted me with this gift of a beautiful life. Even when I mess up, His mercy covers all.
For this I am thankful.
Happy Anniversary Honey
I am excited for the blessings God has in store for us in the next 50 years.
And then some!!!!!!
Love you forever and a day
xoxoxox Me
