100 Days

Braun and I have been married 100 days as of yesterday.   We sat over dinner last night at Bistro La Bon and toasted to this milestone (if you can call it that).  We both couldn’t believe that it had been 100 days since that hot yet wonderful day. 

I remember when we were 100 days until the weddding day.  Braun sent me 100 roses and  it seemed like it was a long time to wait.  Now, after the wedding, it seems like no time at all.

The 100 days have been filled with learning how to live with each other, how to communicate, how to argue, creating traditions/habits together and various other learning opportunities!  It was so good to reflect and know that, though Braun and I are very different, we love each other deeply. 

Driving to work this morning, after saying goodbye and wishing each other a good day at work, my heart was full for him.  I am so blessed to have this man in my life. 

So today, I’m thankful — not just for the good days, but for the difficult ones too because they are refining us both in the process.   

A toast to all of those who have gone before us for many “hundred days” anniversaries!

The tie that binds

Braun and I will wed in 90 days, but we will be married for a lifetime, Lord willing.  This quote by Nouwen has impacted me greatly. I read it in a book last night and I’ve been reflecting on it ever since.  This is certainly not a worldly view of marriage!

“Marriage is not a lifelong attraction of two individuals to each other but a call for two people to witness together to God’s love.  The basis of marriage is not mutual affection, or feelings, or emotions and passions that we associate with love, but a calling, a vocation.  It is to understand that we are elected to build together a house for God in this world.  It is to be like the two cherubs whose outstretched wings sheltered the Ark of the Covenant and created a space where Yahweh could be present.  Marriage is a relationship where man and woman protect and nurture the inner sanctum within and between them, and they witness to that by the way they love each other……..It is rather that the intimacy of marriage itself is an intimacy that is based on the common participation in a love greater than the love that two people can offer each other.  The real mystery of marriage is not that husband and wife love each other so much that they can recognize God in each other’s lives, but more because God loves them so much that they can discover each other more and more as living reminder’s of God’s presence.” – Henri Nouwen