A little of five years ago (it was five years on Saturday), I married my best friend. The fact that it has been five years absolutely blows me away. It was a day that brought on panic attacks only two years prior to it actually happening. On the actual day, I couldn't have been more calm or more happy or more excited.
Since then, the wedding money has been spent. The wedding gifts have been used excessively (or returned, shhhh). The wedding cake has been tossed - we never got to eat it since it was in a freezer in Michigan and we were in PA. The day is five years in the past. However, the story of Missy and Ryan has continued and grown.
Through one apartment, one house, four cars, four churches, eight - yes eight - jobs, trips to the cliffs overlooking Boston, the bars of Key West and the battlegrounds of Gettysburg (and in three days the beaches of Puerto Rico!!!!), countless Sundays, Thursdays and weekends with the youth group of Grace Bible Church, family trips to Maryland, New York, Florida, Wisconsin and Michigan. Laughter, tears, "disagreements", romantic dinners. Oh, and the most beautiful child in the history of children.
Miss, I love you more today than I ever could have imagined loving anyone. Five years has felt like five days. I can't wait to see how God uses us, grows us, molds us, stretches us and loves us over the next five years.
Happy anniversary, beautiful.
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