Anniversaries

Today is the fourth anniversary of my graduation from Baylor, where I completed my 5-year degree plan in 4.5 years so that tomorrow could be my fourth anniversary with David. The traditional fourth anniversary gift is flowers and fruit and the modern gift is an appliance, neither of which would I ever expect to receive from David. The appliance has captured our conversations more than the flowers and fruit, but the only appliance we don’t already own and would like to is a nice Kitchen Aid mixer. Several things prevent us from running out and getting one tomorrow for our anniversary… 1. cost-those puppies are expensive! 2. size-have you seen our tiny apartment?! where would we put the thing? 3. practicality-we already own a hand-held mixer and what we don’t use that for is what we mix with muscle power. God has provided every appliance we need at this place in our lives and even some we don’t need. So we’ve decided to skip the gift and just be thankful for these four wonderful, easy, fun, entertaining and blessed four years of marriage we’ve been gifted with and give each other the gift of hope and hard work so that the next four years may be as wonderful, easy, fun, entertaining and blessed as the first four.

Yes, our first four years, in fact the first year especially, was easy for us. EASY?! I can hear the doubt in your minds. Yes, easy. Being married to David has been a natural and … easy … thing for me. Not easy as in easy=no effort, but easy as in easy=the effort and hard work has been enjoyable and therefore the effort and work fade and the enjoyable part is left to linger in your memory. It helps, considerably, that we have had to and chosen to rely on God so often for so much. He is truly a member of this marriage and without Him holding us together, these first four years of our lives together would not have been.

Praise the Lord for four magnificent years!