Life Partners

While I am posting sickeningly sweet “awww shucks” pictures I thought I might as well continue and share one more. This one is in honor of Ted’s and my celebration of our anniversary this week.

On the 11th of August we celebrated 7 years of marriage. We both agreed that it has been an adventure, but one we would sign up for all over again if we had to. 🙂 It is a good thing we both feel that way, because partnered relationships only grow with mutual and continual recommitment to the relationship. I often say in wedding sermons that love in Christian marriage isn’t just a “mushy romantic feeling” (though it can be mushy and romantic at times). Christian love often is a commitment to do the loving thing, even when you don’t feel like it. Whenever I have the privileged opportunity to share those words at a wedding, I too appreciate the reminder about the loving commitment that it takes to nurture and strengthen a relationship. Happy anniversary to us and to all of you partnered folks out there, in the hope of celebrating many many more anniversaries!

who knew what it would lead to?

Awwww… this is a picture of Ted & me taken over 10 years ago, on the day we first met. The date was April 26, 1998, but it is not like I am counting or anything. 😉 We met because we had both just happened to have been given tickets by a mutual friend to the Georgia Renaissance Festival. In this photo we are on the way to or from the festival, along with Melissa who was also on the back seat of the minivan.

Jeff, a good friend of Ted’s and the owner & driver of the minivan, just found this picture in his collection. After hearing about this continually “lost” picture’s existence for years I am very happy to see it, though I am surprised by how much younger both Ted and I look. Ted’s t-shirt is a funny reminder that his science fiction interest is nothing new.

It is really nice for a picture of such a significant occasion to turn up unexpectedly.  Thanks a lot for sharing this picture, Jeff!  The picture also reminds me that I have known you, the Vinson family, and Melissa for as long as I have known Ted.  Wow!