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So today is my 2 year anniversary to my bride Amanda.  And what an incredible and amazing journey and process it has been!  I am so blessed to wake up each and everyday with her.  Since it is our anniversary I found it fitting to blog about my pooks and babygirl;  my bride.

She is beautiful.  Not only in that crazy physical attractive manner that I still to this day am appealed by and drawn to but in that captivating and enveloping beauty.  It is the way she listens that is beautiful and the way she gracefully puts together her thoughts and the way her mind processes information is truly a matter of beauty.  She is a conversationalist and I enjoy and cherish the times we just get to talk while going for a walk or just chilling at home.  She listens and sympathizes and feels and contributes and always has a genuine pouring out of her heart.  I love talking with her and our conversations are beautiful.

She is a mother.  She nurtures and cares, almost to a flaw.  She gets no sleep, is carrying our second child and has to chase around our crazy 10 month old son around all day.  The thing about this is she exhibits a strength like none other.  The love she has for our son is something that daily blows me away.  Yes, she has her moments where I have to take my son out of the room or call CPS but the way she cherishes and loves him is truly amazing.  Young men, please remember while youre dating that someday the prospect has the potential of raising your children.  How wonderful to go to work each day knowing I am leaving my son in the care of his wonderful mother and a woman that is going to teach him how to be a man and raise him up as a mighty man of valor.  To know she will lay down her own thoughts or philosophies to teach him at a young age that he is called to be a MAN!  That is what I find so astonishing each and everyday.  As much as I am there and going to be there, the truth of the matter is she is the one primarily raising him and I can trust and rest assured she will guide him to Jesus as that prototype man.

My bride is a lover.  She sincerely and truly loves people. Fellas, please do not kid yourself into thinking that you will change a woman.  If she is a girl that always has drama with girls and people and is a gossiper then you have to cut it loose.  My wife loves people and I mean all people.  It is difficult sometimes people she loves people I can not stand.  She loves the loner, the outcast, the special needs person, the weak, the strong, the broken and the blessed.  She not just loves from a distance but is willing to pour out the love she has been blessed with to anyone and everyone.  I am blessed to be the primary recipient each and everyday.  I take it for granted many times, but I am so blessed to experience and know that love each and everyday.

I could write all night about the qualities and traits of my bride, Amanda.  For the sake of time I close on this…my wife is completely secure in the love of Christ.  She understands she is a daughter of the King and she is His prized possession.  If a girl doesn’t know this she is simply not ready to be loved by a man.  My wife finds her all in all in the love and grace of Jesus and knows He is her Ultimate Assurance.  She loves her Jesus and pursues and chases hard after Him.  She loves His Word and daily dwells in it.  My bride clings and holds to the promise of her Savior.

Amanda: Happy 2nd Anniversary.  I love you with my whole heart and soul.  I am blessed to be your beloved and cherish you.  We have grown and been through so much the past couple of years and I love how we continue to grow and become one flesh and one mind.  I can only imagine the next 2 years and how the Lord will develop our love and deepen it and strengthen it.  You are my partner in life, ministry and everything.  Your daily support, encouragement and love truly push me to be a better man and to know the love of my Lord even more.  My prayer is that you would know my love for you and that you would continually be driven to love of Christ and walk in that Romance first and foremost.  I love you.

Guys reading this: I pray you would have the strength to follow after Jesus first and foremost and let Him teach you how to be a lover.  What better picture do we have as a groom then the Groom himself.  I pray you would not sell yourself short and that you would be a generation insistent of the protection and guardianship of young women’s heart, body and soul.  I pray you would find not just a wife, but a bride.  That you would not merely find a girlfriend but a Partner.  That you would not only fall in love but would understand how to live in the Love you have been given.  Much love.  Be Bold, Speak Truth, Spread Love.

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