ENGAGING CULTURE

Teresa,

It’s hard for me to believe that you and I have been married for five years. It seems like only yesterday that we sat praying and crying over the loss of our friends in a tragic but sovereignly designed van accident. That event drew us so close. I had always been very clumsy and nervous with girls, but with you it felt easy. We could be ourselves because we had been there for each other when we were vulnerable.

It took you a while to come around to the idea that I really did love you for you (part of me thinks you still don’t understand it). I remember all of the drives around the circle and talks we had as we walked around campus at night. I remember the night that we both confessed that we wanted to spent the rest of our lives together. And I don’t regret a second of it. We were young and could have done so many things while we were still single, but I can’t imagine my life without you.

Now in just five short years so many things have changed. We’ve moved six times and we aren’t done yet, but I promise this is the last one for a good long while. God has blessed us with three absolutely beautiful, perfectly healthy, and generally well-behaved children. God has allowed us to see times of plenty and He has provided for us in times of drought and famine. But one thing in these five whirlwind years has not changed. I still love you for you and imagine growing old and serving God together for as long as he gives us breath.

We are in some hard times now, possibly our hardest ever, but I know we will look back at these times just as we do the past five years and will see the hand of God guiding us through the obstacles so that all things work together for our eternal good and His everlasting glory.

Happy Anniversary,

Logan