10 Years Today
I tell people all the time to get single before they get married. Most people date someone for a long time and realize the only progression their relationship can take is marriage.
It’s like life is a game of musical chairs and when the music stops, and its time to get married, whoever you happen to be with at the time is the one you will spend your life with.
I am here to tell you there is a better way.
Ten years ago today, the former Tracey Penn took my name and gave me her heart.
When I gave my life to Jesus I gave Him my all. I gave Jesus my intended career, my identity, and my life plans. I believed that if God was still alive then He could make it clear to me when I was supposed to get married and to whom. And one day He did.
People think that if God is behind something it will happen flawlessly. That could not be farther from the truth. God is only in things that will collapse without Him.
So in the beginning, Tracey and I had to seek God in our marriage. We had to allow Him to change who we are. We had to choose love, choose forgiveness and choose to be husband and wife.
The strongest friendships are built on the backs of conquered adversity.
Our adversity was not from outside, but within. As we followed the leading of God in parenting, ministry, and life, we had to choose over and over again to love, forgive, trust, bless, honor, respect, encourage, and believe in one another.
Today, Tracey is the closest friend I have ever had. Our marriage is more open, affectionate, fun, fulfilling, and enjoyable then it has ever been. Tracey has my total trust. She has shown me time and again why God chose her for me. Without her I would not be the man, the minister, or the father I am today.
I am eternally grateful that you took my name and gave me your heart.
Tracey I love you.
Always and Forever.
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etty good ones as far as parenting goes.
By the time you read this I will be somewhere in the Carribean on the Carnival Imagination.