Sunday, May 2, 2010

May 3rd marks 7 Wonderful Years

Happy 7th Anniversary to my John-Mark. How does the song go??...."I Love You More Today Than Yesterday, But Not As Much As Tomorrow..."

You're the man of my dreams and everything I prayed for...only more! Thank you for being the most loving, selfless, kind hearted and gentle husband. I couldn't imagine my life without my German. I couldn't imagine anyone else tucking our kids in at night. I couldn't imagine anyone loving me better than how you love me. Thank you Lord for this man! You are the same today as the first time I met you in Yosemite. Here's to many more years of growing together, raising our kiddos together and serving the Lord.

I Love you Johann my sweet German Chocolate Cake. (A vegan one of course)

These were the two scriptures we had read at our wedding ceremony.

Philippians 2: 5-11

Your attitude should be the same that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not demand and cling to his rights as God. He made himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form. And in human form he obediently humbled himself even further by dying a criminal's death on a cross. Because of this, God raised him up to the heights of heaven and gave him a name that is above every other name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.



Ephesians 5:25-33

And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife. No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church. And we are his body. As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.






John-Mark and Madelyn
May 3, 2003
San Juan Capistrano, CA


1 comment:

gina marie said...

I loved being part of that day... watching you two start your lives together was a wonderful thing to witness. You both are loved!