I will be celebrating my 10th anniversary so I will be out the pocket until around Monday or Tuesday (depending on how much work compiles for me while I am gone). We will hang out in the French Quarter, eat a bunch and just relax. I am excited because well most didn’t think we would sustain. Heck earlier on I didn’t think we would either. We married after 6 months and I was only 20, a 5 percenter, who had never witnessed a Godly Marriage. But thanks first to Christ for the Gospel, then to Calvin and Keynon. These brothers taught me what marriage was to look like. Also a shout out to Stuart Scott his book “The Exemplary Husband”changed the way I viewed marriage (if you don’t own it buy it), my wife, and my responsibilities from a theological perspective and He pretty much reformed my biblical view on marriage. Thanks a bunch Prof. Scott.
Congratulations – I fully understand where you are coming from. I have been married 16 years and there are times my wife and I both look back scratching our heads wondering how we ever got through. Thank God we did, cause we are still in love with each other.
Congratz! I remember 10, but it was the first 5yrs that were the most challenging. I will be going into year 21 this November and give ALL the glory to God!
I Ain’t Nobody!
Congratulations! My wife and I just recently celebrated 18 years! I have been a believer for 19 years and am confident that if God had not saved me when He did that with the way I was living back then, that I would have been dead by now.
Glory to God.
BTW. You asked in another post about how someone in desperate circumstances can make it despite the odds.
The answer is the same way you and I made it out…by the grace of God!
Whoop!
That’s great news. We certainly rejoice with those who rejoice and I’ll give Stu’s book a look.
I would also recommend Gary Thomas’ Sacred Marriage: What if God intended marriage to make us holy, more than to make us happy?
Hey congrats, Ten years is a great testimony in this day. Praise God!
Congratulations brother! That story sounds familiar. MY wife and I went on our first date July 3, 1999 and we got married October 30, 1999. I was 24 and she was 20. There were wagers out on our marriage. But here we are 9 years later with 4 children and more love for one another than we had to begin with.
Congrats on a decade of love!!! Woo hoo!!!
I pray that God will continue to cause you to rise up and call her blessed, and that you will continue to image for our world the stunning beauty of Christ and his bride.
Congrats on ten years. Wow that is a blessing to share in the love of God with your wife for 10 years. How did you all meet?
At a mall a few days back from Kuwait. She was standing there looking slim and cute.
Congratulations my friends. Let’s pray for another 50 years or more.
Blessings,
Lou
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Great stuff! My wife & I celebrated our 16th on Monday. We were married young as well. However unlike you guys we took our time. We met, dated, and married within a span of 89 days.
It’s only by the grace of God that I am alive to tell about it. LOL
This is wonderful news, congratulations!
Prayerfully, I hope young men around you will learn from your example.
Thank you all for your kind words. We just got back and we had a lovely time. Though New Orleans is a bit on the dark side, it was beautiful to see how the town is rebuilding. I even walked down Burbon street and there were strippers outside on the streets and a couple of brothers in Christ were out there sharing the Gospel and handing out tracts right in front of them. These were very strong brothers as we walked by as fast as possible but on the way back I talked to them and they have been doing some good work in the city. So I am excited to see that brothers are “exposing the evil deeds of darkness” by sharing the glorious message of the cross and Gods grace through His Son.
There wasn’t a bunch of “wicked Sinner” though they were clear that unless they repent and trust in Christ Hell would be their abode. I am excited to see bretheren standing up in such a dark town.
congratulations lionel & charity! dee and i married shortly as well, 5 1/2 months (against our pastor’s advice). here we are 17 years down the road and i’m am still feeling that brother and he’s still crazy about moi.
though i have to admit, in the beginning, there were times i would be looking at him wondering who the heck is this person and what have i gotten myself into!? LOL