marriage

i follow Kate Andre's blog (formally Kate Mcdonald-shawn mcdonald's ex-wife and bethany dillon's sister).  She is actually from Bellefontaine, OH!  small world, huh?  This blog post is a beautiful example of her heart.  i leave this quote with you:

"I am learning that marriage isn’t all about romance and passion and ideals that media pushes on us. It is not even about happiness or having an increasingly better marriage as much as it is about the potential for real transformation in our own lives. Marriage can make us better as people, even when or maybe especially when it is hard and things don’t go as planned and it is not easy and the demands on us feel unfair. Maybe marriage is at it’s best when it restricts us, defines limitations, exposes our sin, and calls us to die to ourself in favor of becoming what God has already declared us to be: ONE."




read that quote again.

thank you, jesus, for the gift of marriage.