For a while maybe longer if I do.

Today is the twelfth anniversary of the day that my beautiful wife decided to join her lot with mine and make a go of it. We were married in the evening in the room in which we met a little more than three years prior. She then moved into my little efficiency apartment with me and our life has been bliss ever since. Sure, there have been ups and downs, ins and outs and a whole lot of in-betweens since that day. But it is because of those things and how they have brought us closer together that it has been bliss ever since.


I will be forever grateful to our Father in Heaven for putting the two of us together and making it possible through sacred covenants, that we and our children are and will be bound together forever if we only adhere to those covenants and do the best we can to be worthy of the grace he will make available to us. My life has been forever changed, for the better because of those covenants and the love that my wonderful Amy shows to me each and every day.


It is because of her support that I have been able to dream, perservere and accomplish what I have in the past twelve years. It is because of what she learned in her home growing up that I am able to serve (with her) as a priesthood holder in the Lords Kingdom. I am especially grateful for the standards that they instilled in her that have had a direct result on the quality of my life.


She has given me 3 2/3 children that have brought joy into my life that is incomporable to anything that I have ever experienced or ever will. I have witnessed her sharing her beauty with them in ways that will endure forever. I have seen and heard her teaching them eternal principles in simple ways that I know will impact the lives of others (as they have mine) in the future. I look forward to the posterity that will spring forth from them. I look forward to being a part of their lives with her as partners in exaltation.


I am grateful for her love for me. I adore her. She is a true partner. Equal to me. She picks up where I fall short. She lends her joy to my life when I need it. She is the end of beauty in a way that trandscends all of the ugly things that I am faced with on a daily basis. I pray that I will be able to live my life in a way that will be pleasing to God so that I may stand with her as partners in love and service forever.

God be thanked for the gift of eternity and for the promises that can be ours.