Today marks the sixth year of my marriage to Ivan Peter Martens.
As of today (compared to six years ago):
We know each other more deeply and wholly.
We have more wrinkles and gray hairs.
We have learned to keep talking and work out our conflicts more easily and quickly.
We are closer to Jesus with each other.
We have settled into a home we call our own.
We have two beautiful daughters.
Thus we are more tired and more poor, but happy.
We have walked through grief unknown and unheard of to us when we made our vows.
We have seen God begin to pull us up and out of the muddy pit of our grief.
And we are still married and stronger because of all of it.
Six years of marriage.
So thankful.
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Here is to another wonderful, less grief filled, more abundance filled six years of knowing one another even more and walking the journey close together.