Happy anniversary sweetheart! I feel so grateful and blessed for the seven years we have been married together. We got married at age 29 and 30 respectively (which seemed so old at the time!) But although we'd both accomplished many things separately in our single adult lives, nothing had really prepared us for the challenges-and the joys- that marriage would bring. All we knew on that beautiful snowy day was that we loved each other, we believed God had brought us together, and we were excited to begin life as husband and wife. We quickly realized that building a strong marriage would be a challenge-filled task. Some of the challenges along the way have been internal, from our own sinful tendencies: selfishness, unwillingness to forgive, unfair expectations, laziness, etc.. Marriage has been a microscope that magnifies these faults. (I forget where I read that illustration but it is so true.) Yet at the same time, God is using marriage to chip away at these faults. It's an o
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