He gave me the man I asked for...

I asked the Lord for a husband to be my beloved mate...
He gave me this one...

{the one on the left... the one on the right belongs to Vicki}

A bible college student, A youth group leader, oldest of 9 children and semi-homeschooled. Most of all he had all the time in the world for … ME … He could answer most of my questions and didn't grow weary in answering them. He listened to me when I told him his study book was a subjective load of bull and he helped me do my dishes. We even recall an awful time of him holding me down while dropping eye sting (eye drops) into my desperately trying to close eye lids and him telling me my beloved new chocolate eating 'silly' rabbit was making me desperately sick. Oh and the time he decided I needed to eat vegetables and so cooked me tea. Uhm I no longer LIVED at my parents I didn't HAVE to eat vegetables!! But he made me and I ate them. We hung out with several friends all the time. There was the other night I invited him over for pancakes (pink, yellow and blue ones?) with a bunch of other people and I am pretty sure I started a mini-m&m fight (DO NOT TELL MY KIDS) I found those things for months afterwards.
He was there when my adorable baby bunny rabbit died... In his hands... and we had to drive somewhere to bury her.... And he was there when I cried over it...

It has not been an easy road for either of us. Hit with family tragedy after family tragedy. Personality conflicts and character-building-moments. It has been a sure long hard tough bumpy horrible road for this married couple. The Lord has made us stronger within our marriage and within Him. Our rough edges have been pushed, shoved, scraped, dragged, forgotten, remembered, forgiven, resisted and handed over to him. I do not think we are now shiny glorious diamonds cut from our rough but we are so much further ahead then we were over 6 years ago. Phew!!

Thank You Lord for your discipline and that you loved me so much you sought to give to me the rough man to make perfect for you... and I spose thank you for making me so much better then I was--- It has hurt... For all that refinement Lord I Thank Thee...