Still speaking of love, 13 years ago today my husband asked me to stay with him for the rest of our lives. I had no clue what "the rest of our lives" really meant (and I know we have only scratched the surface!) and I certainly didn't spend much time thinking, "What will our lives look like 13 years from now?...how will our love have grown?" I mostly remember the floating feeling, staring at my ring until I fell asleep and formulating my case to my parents as to why getting married 3 months before my college graduation "just made sense!"
6 vehicles, 5 moves, 4 new human beings, 3 states, 2 cats & 1 new house later...here we are...still in love...more in love.
I can't speak for Clinton, but I didn't get what I signed up for.
He is more faithful, more loving, more honest, more supportive, more compassionate, more unselfish than I ever would have imagined. Some of these things I simply could not know because we hadn't gone through trials and testing together. But as the events of our life together have unfolded, he continues to amaze me. He rises to a standard far higher than one I could set. Because of a relationship that was established about 15 years before I married him, he reaches toward a higher goal, he reaches out to Christ who is the reason Clinton is who he is today...and why he can love me irrationally!
On our wedding day, 1 year-1 month-5 days after our engagement, I sang these words to Clinton.
"I see Jesus in your eyes and it makes me love you.
I feel Jesus in your touch and I know He cares.
I hear Jesus in your voice and it makes me listen.
And I trust you with my love because your His.
I see Him, I see Him in you."
I still see, feel, hear and trust...
Thanks for reading and sharing one of the joys of my heart!
Until the snow clears...
love,
me
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6 comments:
You do know that this will make him (and everyone else) cry, right?
Beautiful tribute to him, Jen.
Many, many congratulations!
Your story was beautiful, and all the more so as I have had the opportunity to see how much you meant every word by having had the good fortune to have observed your love story first hand! The two of you were truly and literally made for each other - how incredible is that?!
Amy
Yes, I am crying. Not nearly as hard as the day she sang those words to me, but I am truly moved. I wish words could express just how much thie irrational love lover has meant to me! These have been some crazy-great years. I can't wait to see what the next 13 have in store.
- your irrational being :)
This is late and random on this post, but I'm searching for the song that you posted to use in my wedding. I can't hardly find it anywhere on the internet. I'm trying to find the sheet music to it. Do you know who wrote it or where I could find it? I think that the name of it is "One Love", but googling that doesn't bring up much. Thanks for any help you can give me!
Stephanie
Steph - I'm so sorry. I don't have the music anymore. But, I'll see if I can find it through the friend who first shared it with me. When is your wedding?
Thanks for checking! It's June 28th. It's a good thing I started early because this song is proving to be a challenge to track down!
Thankss again!
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