I love being married.
Let me clarify, I love being married to Kip, my husband for nearly 16 years.
The best years of our marriage began, not surprisingly, once we welcomed our God into our marriage. Is it always perfect? Absolutely not, but we now have all of the tools we need to make it through all of the difficult times.
Valentines Day has always been a fun day for us before kids and since. It is not an extravagant day by any means but in the past 18 years or so, they have always been very meaningful. This year, like many others was low key, dinner and rented a movie. This year my parents blessed us with watching our precious children overnight. I am grateful to them for giving us this chance to re-connect and nurture our marriage.
All of this was affirmed in our hearts tonight after we watched “Fireproof”. What a great movie to watch on this Valentines eve. If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend it.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
—Ephesians 5:22-33
