Love is a tree, each person a branch.

  And a pile of cut-off branches doesn’t make a tree.

                                                                                                            ~  Ann Voskamp

 

             I married an Idaho dairyman… a guy who milks cows, feeds cows, helps the mamas deliver their babies, and about a million other jobs around the dairy…….or so I thought.  After four years of marriage he came home one day and asked how I would like to move to Michigan so he could go to seminary.  Say what????  So now God’s calling him to care for people instead of cows?  All my family lives in Idaho, there are dairies on both sides of the family.

But in my youthful adventure-seeking naiveté I said “Sure, I’ll go wherever God wants us to go.”

Before I married I had moved 7 times, now I’m up to 18, adding four delightful daughters during the journey.  Along with the thousands of miles have come as many joys, disappointments, days of despair, illness, dashed hopes, broken dreams, rising hope, and peace.

Interestingly, a side effect of all these years of life has come an inner strength (as the outer strength wanes), a bit of wisdom, and a desire to come alongside others going through the challenging yet rewarding journey of marriage.

 

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Enjoy and be encouraged ~ Shari