Today the latin lover and I celebrate 6 years of matrimonial bliss. As I reflect on the events of this past year I can't help but think this has been our most significant year yet.

Over the past year we have lived in four different houses. Over the past year we brought a new life into the world. Over the past year we dreamed up a grandiose plan for the immediate future. Over the past year we decided to seek more mature input into our lives and marriage. Over the past year we made a choice to willfully submit our plans and endeavors to one greater. We saw our plans, dreams and ideas fall by the wayside. In the end we received nothing that we prayed for or attempted in our own power and everything for which we hoped. We exchanged our individual desires for an idea that is now supported and endorsed by many. Submission is never easy or painless but there is an immeasurable peace knowing we are going down the right path headed somewhere. Living in a world where people spend there lives trying to figure the proverbial 'it' out it is comforting to have some purpose-goal-endeavor to work toward. Serving the living God always comes at a cost and yet the product on the other side, that is to say, who we become in the process, is inspiring and worth going after with eyes wide open.