As we were lying in bed last night talking through what our 9th year held I realized we just came through one of the biggest and hardest years of our marriage. We experienced extreme sleep deprivation, personal loss, betrayal, foundations that felt like shifting sand. But what we also experienced was a peace that far surpasses our understanding, rest in our weariness, God being glorified in our weakness, and a realization that our Foundation will NEVER shift. In looking back we can see that God is making beautiful things out of us!
He does that. He makes beauty from our messes and takes ugly situation and turns them into good. I could not be more thankful.
And after 9 years together we both agreed that what we want most for our 10th year is more of Jesus. We just want to sit at His feet, with our hands held out, awaiting how He is going to fill them. We want to worship with our lives; in the mundane of the day to day tasks; in the grand adventures of traveling to Kenya; in the exhaustion of being parents; in the struggles, tears and joys of being a part of caring for orphans.