In just a short 5 days Mike and I are getting married! October 9, 2010 will be the day we finally get to marry each other, after waiting for so long.
Our plan was to have our whole story written before our wedding day, so we could start fresh afterwards. Obviously with 4 children, a job and full time college, we didn't quite find the time to blog all of it yet. But it is coming! Slowly but surely. We will pick up where we left off after we get back from Hawaii and life resumes to normal again! This is something I journaled the other night.
"To my love,
This is the most important day of our life together. Not only because we are marrying each other, but because we have waited for 16 years to see this union, to experience the day where our lives become one...the life we have longed for, hoped and prayed for and dreamed about.
At 14 years old I met a boy that I knew in my young and childish heart I was going to marry. All the feelings inside me were very complex yet strong and they all led to my heart completely diving headfirst into love for this boy named Mike Roe. Everyone around me told me I was crazy and that I couldn't possibly know what love is at 15 years old. But I argued that I knew this boy, I knew his kind and gentle, loving heart. I knew the thoughtful and generous person that I experienced. If my feelings for him were not love then I would never know what love is.
15 years passed and we both went on to live seperate lives, finding our own versions of what love meant to us at the time. As always, along with the unfulfilled love comes hurt and heartache.
But then, through the hands of God and circumstances out of our own control, He brought us back together. I immediately fell back in love with the boy I fell in love with so long ago. But now he wasn't a boy, he was a man. He is a man that has lived through his own hurts and tragedies and has come out of those with a strong, wise and pure heart. He is a man that loves his children and family deeply and selflessly, who will protect them and provide for them, no matter the cost to him. He is a man that loves me beyond what I had ever hoped for, dreamed for, and begged God for. He loves me for who I am, which in turn has given me the freedom to embrace myself and love who I am as well. He loves me with abandon, passionately and purely. He has become my best friend, my love and my companion. Everyday with him is magical simply because he is by my side. Not only has his example taught me how to love better, to love selflessly and unconditionally, but to also live in joy and in laughter, to live in the everyday moments that make our family so special, to embrace the moments that matter and let go of the ones that don't.
When I think back to the people that told me 16 years ago that I didn't know what love was, I want to tell them all how wrong they were. I loved him then and I love him even more now. And I know that the love we share that started our story 16 years ago will continue to guide us, strengthen us and bind us together for eternity. God has orchestrated our incredible love story and I know this day is just the beginning. I can't wait to see what He has in store for Mike and I and our wonderful new family; Michael, Riley, Daniel and Hayden.
To my dear Mike: my life, my love, my best friend, my soul mate and soon-to-be husband, I love you."
This is the most important day of our life together. Not only because we are marrying each other, but because we have waited for 16 years to see this union, to experience the day where our lives become one...the life we have longed for, hoped and prayed for and dreamed about.
At 14 years old I met a boy that I knew in my young and childish heart I was going to marry. All the feelings inside me were very complex yet strong and they all led to my heart completely diving headfirst into love for this boy named Mike Roe. Everyone around me told me I was crazy and that I couldn't possibly know what love is at 15 years old. But I argued that I knew this boy, I knew his kind and gentle, loving heart. I knew the thoughtful and generous person that I experienced. If my feelings for him were not love then I would never know what love is.
15 years passed and we both went on to live seperate lives, finding our own versions of what love meant to us at the time. As always, along with the unfulfilled love comes hurt and heartache.
But then, through the hands of God and circumstances out of our own control, He brought us back together. I immediately fell back in love with the boy I fell in love with so long ago. But now he wasn't a boy, he was a man. He is a man that has lived through his own hurts and tragedies and has come out of those with a strong, wise and pure heart. He is a man that loves his children and family deeply and selflessly, who will protect them and provide for them, no matter the cost to him. He is a man that loves me beyond what I had ever hoped for, dreamed for, and begged God for. He loves me for who I am, which in turn has given me the freedom to embrace myself and love who I am as well. He loves me with abandon, passionately and purely. He has become my best friend, my love and my companion. Everyday with him is magical simply because he is by my side. Not only has his example taught me how to love better, to love selflessly and unconditionally, but to also live in joy and in laughter, to live in the everyday moments that make our family so special, to embrace the moments that matter and let go of the ones that don't.
When I think back to the people that told me 16 years ago that I didn't know what love was, I want to tell them all how wrong they were. I loved him then and I love him even more now. And I know that the love we share that started our story 16 years ago will continue to guide us, strengthen us and bind us together for eternity. God has orchestrated our incredible love story and I know this day is just the beginning. I can't wait to see what He has in store for Mike and I and our wonderful new family; Michael, Riley, Daniel and Hayden.
To my dear Mike: my life, my love, my best friend, my soul mate and soon-to-be husband, I love you."
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