My wifey and I have been married eleven years today. Eleven years. Unbelievable. We have three great kids together [and one on the way - we are expecting a baby in April], a beautiful house in which to live, in a city and amongst a community of people that we absolutely adore. Life is really good today.

We have been through many struggles and hard times together. Relational difficulties. Hard life circumstances. Major challenges and stressful situations. Dark days. Sometimes unhealthiness has abounded. To say that life has been difficult at times, would be an understatement. But we have remained partners in love. We have remained committed to our idea of what building a life together might look like. And we have remained faithful to God in what he has asked us to do as a family.

I have more respect and admiration and love for my wife now, than I ever have. She is a strong, giving, hospitable, relentlessly unselfish, hard-working, beautiful [inside and out] woman. When I first asked her to marry me twelve years ago, I perhaps didn't realize it at the time, but I was making the best decision I've ever made in my life.

The only real question to ask is: How did a guy like me score a girl like her?

Lucky, I guess.

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