Happy Anniversary, my love!

Today, Cory and I are celebrating our 4th anniversary. I can hardly believe it’s been four years since my dad walked me down that aisle and I said “I do” to Cory. In some ways, it feels like an eternity ago because so much has happened the past four years but at times, I feel like I blinked and the time has passed.

We’ve definitely had our moments but I’m so grateful to be able to say that we’ve had an “easy” marriage (Cory may have a different story). After getting married, not much changed except the fact that we lived together and I count that as a blessing. I strongly believe that dating for four years helped the easy(ish) transition but also we didn’t have any skeletons in our closest. We were debt free other than our house so we didn’t have any financial burdens looming over our heads but most importantly we put God in the center of our marriage and home from the beginning.

This anniversary is going to be different than any one in the past. There will be no fancy dinners or even gifts. We didn’t do something crazy like getting tattoos or take a romantic trip, just the two of us but this anniversary is going to be far greater than any before because we get to spend this anniversary in Rwanda. We get to spend it loving on the least of these and sharing God’s word and I can’t think of anyone else that I would rather travel the world with. I can’t think of anyone else I would rather have by my side in these homes with mud floors and walls. I can’t think of anyone else I would rather have sitting beside me on a wooden bench that the village is taking home to home so we have a place to sit. I can’t think of anyone else that I would rather stand beside when he is laying hands over a family of 10 who are living in a tent just to escape the fighting in Congo.

I’m so thankful that God chose me to be Cory’s wife and so blessed that I get to spend the rest of my life with such a Godly, loving, caring man. A man who is selfless and fearlessly devoted to me. A man that will take me around the world to let me love on some Rwandan babies and will spend his days here helping a family rebuild their home because they didn’t have the $100 to make it livable.