Dirty Diapers & Love!

So I was listening to focus on the family today. I just love that radio show. Anyway today it was about marriage and something profound was said.

Your marriage should be like a cloth diaper.
I LOVE THIS!!!

In todays world so many things are disposable, silverware, dishes, hand towels, watches, even husbands and wives.

Marriage is not supposed to be a throw away item...disposable.

If we looked at our married life like a diaper, in our hearts is it disposable? Are we all just waiting for the moment that it gets messy and starts to stink, for the moment when the "situation" gets to be too gross to handle, so we can just throw it away and bring in a new one?

Here is the first issue. A diaper is a diaper, and a marriage is a marriage, and no matter how you handle them they are all going to stink at one time or another.

I think (and so does the guy who talked about it on the radio today) We should look at our marriage more like a cloth diaper. It will get nasty, it will stink, there will be "situations" but when they arise you work them out. You clean them up, you deal with them, hang them out to dry and then you bring them back in the house put them back on and keep on crawling!

You don't throw them away!

Marriage is hard ,but it is not a throw away item.

So is your marriage disposable or is it just an old cloth diaper one you know might get stinky but you are willing to work with and clean up for love?

Dear Josh......

Josh,

OK I have tried to type this three times now only to erase and do it over. I think it is because I was writing this for my readers not for you. Trying to word my note so that they could understand the point of March 4th to me. Trying to do that without putting too much personal information but enough love.

I now realize this is not for them it's for you!

So here goes!

Oh my three years! I can not believe it! I AM SO PROUD. There are no words to discribe all the feelings this day creates for me every year! I look back on how far you have come! How honest you have been with me every step of the way! How you have taken this journey day by day never taking for granted how far you have come! How I have grown to love you more...(I thought that was impossible) How I love you differently since March 4th 2008. How my soul is connected to the Godly man you have become more than I ever was before...

I am always proud to be your wife but on this day each year I am a little more proud than usual!

HOOOORAAY!

All my love,
All my life,
Babe

To all our friends who celebrate this day with us each year. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for your understanding for your support and for your encouragement. Most of all for just loving us for nothing more than who we are. Through this journey you have become more than our friends, you are our family.
ONE LOVE,
Cody