Life is full of choices. The great thing about that is you get to make the choice. You can have a good day or a bad day, not because of events that transpire during the day, but because of the way you chose to react to those events. Same thing goes for marriage. Very few people these days (at least in America), are held at gunpoint on the altar and forced into a marriage. Even if you think you didn’t have a choice, you had a choice.
This 15 to 15 thing has been really fun. We have never been very consistent with blog posts and Im happy we have been able to keep up with this. We chose to write some blogs.
We choose each other daily. We love each other deeply. We choose to love each other actively. We choose to speak each other’s love languages. We laugh together often. We choose our intimate moments. We choose when to argue. We choose how we make up. We choose to wake up every day and be married. We choose everything that comes along with sharing a life with someone.
We choose each other over everyone else. We choose to stay faithful to each other. We choose to make our time together matter. We choose to have hard moments. We choose to speak of heavy things. We choose to keep light hearts. We choose to have open communication. We choose love over racial standards. We choose silly things over social conformity. We choose to not take ourselves too seriously. We choose to not treat our lives like a joke.
We choose to love our children. We choose to be appreciative of the people that have paved the way for us. We choose to care about the people in our lives. We choose to love God with our whole hearts. We choose to be the change that we want to see. We choose honesty. We choose respect. We choose to not call each other out of our names. We choose to work toward a healthier lifestyle. We choose to enlarge our territory.
We choose to share our experience on our blog. We choose how much of our experience is shared in our blog. We choose to cherish the memories of the people that are no longer with us. We choose to admit when we are wrong. We choose to be humble. We choose to not be afraid to fail. We choose to accept compliments gracefully. We choose to only accept criticism from people we would take advice from. We choose to cry without fear of judgment.
We choose to do the work. We choose to cuss every now and then. We choose to have a lazy day on occasion. We choose to be tickled by the goofy things our kids do. We choose to try new things. We choose to be genuine. We choose to be patient. We choose to see each other for who we are.
We chose to be married 15 years ago and we have chosen it every single day since then. So many things in life are constantly changing that we choose to be a constant for each other, not taking our life together for granted, but intentionally working on our relationship so we can have something that is meaningful, and special, and helps to carry us through any strife or term oil that the world can throw at us.
Proverbs 18:22 (KJV) [Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Proverbs 31:10-12 (KJV) 10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Genesis 2:23-24 (KJV) 23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
