Tomorrow is our first anniversary! I can’t believe it has been a year already. It has gone by SO fast. Many people say the first year is the hardest to get through, but I think ours was a really good first year. It hasn’t been full of sunshine and roses, but we both have grown a lot and come to know each other so much better than I could have thought. And we still have many more years to go even deeper!

Marriage is really an amazing and sacred thing. Before getting married, I used to read anything I could get my hands on that had to do with marriage, including advice columns specifically for married couples. I wanted to make sure that I would be prepared to be the best wife I could possibly be. But I never really understood it until actually getting married to Nathan. It’s a lot of sacrifice and it requires you to put someone else before yourself, but the rewards are pretty cool!

I think the oddest thing has been that I have come to understand myself better too. My relationship with Nathan has opened my eyes to both good and bad things I didn’t see in myself before. I have more confidence in some ways, and more humility in other ways.

It really is amazing to me how God can bring two people together and they become a greater force as a team than they could be by themselves. Marriage has made me see more of who God is as well, and what His relationship with His people is really like.

The more I come to know Nathan and the deeper our love grows, the more I understand who God is and how He loves us. I think that’s the most amazing thing about marriage. That and the fact that our relationship is designed to reflect that to the people around us as well.

I love you Nathan! It’s been a great year :)