You know, I’m really happy that I married Q.

We’ve had our years of marriage counseling. We’ve had times when I wanted to leave him. We’ve had days when I’ve screamed like the banshee below. It truly would have been financially better and emotionally easier for me had we never married.

BUT -

I would never have followed the wild ride God had set before us had I not had a friend to travel with. I would never have experienced these bizzarre situations of God’s living grace. I would never have been stripped of everything the world considers important in order to see the truth of God from the perspective of trusting an entire family of lives to Him… had I not had my husband with me.

A professor once said in theology class that being married was the closest thing he knew to being crucified with Christ. The one must sacrifice themselves for the other in order for the union to survive.

I didn’t quite understand what the heck he meant at the time. But now, after a decade of marriage it makes all the sense in the world.

“…we will have to decide between what is right, and what is easy.”
– Dumbledore