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Thoughts on my Valentine

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2012 16 Feb
I have been married for four years to my own valentine, my husband Michael. As I reflect on my marriage this Valentine’s Day, I am in awe at the depth and number of ways I have grown–and at how much more I have to learn about love and marriage.
Marriage has been the making of me. Through four years-worth (so far) of the ever-promised “good times and bad,” my heart and soul have changed and turned to God in ways I cannot measure or fully explain. I can’t begin to imagine what the next four years–or thirty–will bring. It scares me and thrills me and fills my heart with peace all at the same time.
I read somewhere once that, “the closer to God we grow, the more fully ourselves we become.” In  all my challenges and mountaintops as a wife and mother, I’ve tried my best to go to God. And I know I’m better for it. Michael makes me a better person without even trying to–it’s the just the way God set things up.
God knows the woman, wife and mother He created me to be, and I hope and pray (and am even affirmed ever so often!) that I am slowly getting there.
Happy Valentine’s Day to my wonderful husband! Thank you for being you. For choosing me. For making me a better person. For saying ‘I do’ to our busy, joy-filled, never-boring, sometimes-exhausting life together. I love you. 
One of our engagement photos taken by our friend Conrad, Spring 2008

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I'm Erin, a Catholic wife, speaker, writer, and mother of six. Since I started my blog way back in 2009, my life has been a roller coaster of babies, plot twists and a plane crash or two. I've been chronicling things here as I've been learning to love and suffer and laugh and trust in the goodness of God in the ordinary and the extraordinary--with a little espresso and a lot of Divine Mercy. Read More…

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