Four Years of Wedded Bliss

September 23rd marks mine and Jeff’s 4th wedding anniversary. As I’m typing this, we are at the end of the day of our anniversary and Jeff is snoring on the couch. Now while we didn’t do anything “special” for our anniversary, we still had a great anniversary…I think so anyway.

Jeff and I spent the day the same as we always do on Wednesdays…at the church working on youth ministry stuff and getting ready for the Chosen Youth Conference. But, to be honest, the only thing I’d rather have done is to go away somewhere alone, nice and relaxing. Now, while that will happen this weekend (more on that in a sec) we did have a nice day today. Our youth pastor treated us to lunch and everyone wished us Happy Anniversary. We even had the chance to reminisce with the Associate Pastor of our church who married us.

This coming weekend we will spend somewhat alone, relaxing at a lake house on Burt Lake. Some of the other youth leaders will also be coming out at various times, with all of us meeting up for dinner on Saturday night.

As for the past four years…they have been awesome and I can’t imagine my life without Jeff. Jeff and I get along fabulously well, despite our financial struggles. We know God is pulling us through them and we are both feeling He is going to do something big in our lives soon.

Jeff is amazing. He is so helpful with the kids and does everything he can to meet their needs, as well as mine. He’s super patient and it takes a lot to stress him out. I’m really thankful for that because I am the opposite. I stress out easily, especially if we’re going to be late or I have a deadline coming up. So we balance each other out quite well, though we can get on each other’s nerves because of our different personalities…LOL.

We’ve never had a fight. Now before you freak out and think “oh no, they’re in trouble for sure”, let me explain. It’s not to say we’ve never disagreed on something or haven’t gotten on each other’s nerves (read above) we have and do. But, before we got married, we decided and determined that we’d talk about things and work it out. Now, while Jeff is great at talking about our issues and his feelings, I’m not so much. But the great thing about Jeff is that he’s good at getting me to talk about what’s going on inside and in my head. And once I do, I realize things aren’t so bad, and I relax and can begin to see the positive side of things.

It’s funny that I say all that because I am naturally a positive thinker and his personality type tends to be more on the negative side and his mind often goes to the worse case scenario. I guess now that I look at it, we help balance each other out when needed. I think that’s why we get along so well. It’s totally a God thing.

Five years ago when we started dating, both Jeff and I had previously finally learned to be content in our singleness. Jeff had never been married and I was single for several years after previously being married for my entire adult life. It’s funny how God moves when we learn to be content first, right where he has us at that moment.

When I take a look back throughout my life, I can see where this happened over and over. Without going into too much detail (since I’m getting off the topic of our anniversary) I see many areas where I was discontent and seemed to be always fighting and struggling, but as soon as I decided, no chose to be content where I was, it was then that God moved in my life.

Anyway, all this to say “Happy Anniversary MY Jeffrey Scott!” I love you and I would marry you all over again!

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