Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for the good things I have received in this life. There have been many many times that I have asked for blessings in my prayers and in one way or another I have received them in due time.

I remember in my teenage years feeling unappreciated a lot of times and that many people didn't always understand or value who I was inside. I would pray that one day I would meet someone who could love me despite what I looked like on the outside.

In a few years I met Andrew who was just different to all the other guys I had ever known. I didn't realize at the time that he was much more wonderful than I could know at the time. We both say that when we married we were sooo lucky because we loved each other but had no idea how much about each other we would come to really love that we didn't know about at the time. There are lots of times we find things out about each other that we didn't know when we married - and they are traits or talents we are so grateful to find in each other. It seems we hardly knew each other in a sense compared to how we know each other now.

One thing I realized last night when I was thinking about what I wanted to write for Thankful Thursday - is that over the almost 7 years we have been married - my body has changed like an accordion- out and in and out and in - settling currently mostly out (boo!) :) Throughout all this time Andrew has never ever stopped wanting or loving me. I realized that I had gotten one of the things I had prayed for so many years ago - someone who loved me for me and regardless of what my shell looked like. Perhaps its because he loves me that he finds me attractive at any stage in my accordion life song.

I am thankful that I really hit the jackpot with my husband. I could never have known all of his wonderful characteristics when we married - and it could have turned out wrong - but it didn't and we are infinitely happy. He makes me laugh all the time, he makes me less stubborn, more responsible and he values my talents. He relies on me like I rely on him.

Our life together has been like the cello solo in the video below: In the beginning there was some adjustment and hiccups as we learned about each other more and more and then our life took off sometimes slow and sometimes fast but always with energy and ease.