Another Day.....Another Dollar

Is it really Monday? How can the weekend go so fast?

Between wedding festivities and the normal Sunday breakfast club and church routine with our best friends and a play with folks from church--little time was left and I found myself getting the "Sunday Night Blues". I love my job. I love the people. I just could have used an extra day or two to recover from a busy weekend. I grabbed a cup of coffee this morning and just sat in my chair at work and decompressed for 10 minutes thinking where does the time go?

Our dear friends got married on Saturday and all the festivities brought me back to our wedding (almost 9 years ago--long time huh). It made me thankful for marrying the man I did. The man I love more now then I did the day we got married. They had the same sparkle in their eyes that we had when we got married.

But, I look back over the last 8 1/2 years of marriage and wonder where did the time go and am sad that 3 years of that were filled with the stress, disappointment and sadness of fertility issues. The months of trying and the months of negative tests. The extreme highs and extreme lows. The times I would try to convince him to leave me and find someone who could have a child so he could be a dad. The months I didn't talk about my pain to anyone and the months that I felt like my life was over--worth nothing, I was a failure. Is that wasted time? Nope, it was a time of growth for us. Out of the pain we have finally started to grow. Grow spiritually, grow as individuals and grow closer together as a couple.

This weekend was a reminder to continue to cherish the times (good and bad) and to not wish the time away and to not forget what we have been through to get to this point. To recognize the struggle and move on. I have recognized the struggle and know that the next 40 years (God willing) of marriage will have highs and lows but know that I will continue to love my husband more than I did the day I said "I do".

1 Corinthians 13
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.