You Know You Are Marrying the Right Person When . . .

. . . he cleans up your mess when you have the flu.

He really did this for me this weekend. I was sick in bed for 3 days. Not only did he clean up after me, but he also took care of my work responsibilities on Saturday night. We had a big event that night and the unexpected illness was truly inconvenient. The amount of stress I would have felt asking the other staff to come in and cover for me would have compounded my sickness had he not been there. He placed all of the important calls, loaded my car with supplies, and went to our event and set them up. He also made several trips back after certain things the team remembered were needed. All the while I slept.

It's times like these that I recall something Dr. Kevin Lehman writes about pre-marital counseling. He likes to tell young men that real love means waking up in the middle of the night and cleaning up your pregnant wife's vomit and rubbing her back until she feels better. And he's been happily married for several decades.

P.S. We're not pregnant. ;)

Praise God!

The fiancé just got a job - and a seemingly great job! We've been praying for the opportunity to move from contract work to full time employment for 4 months now.

The wait has taught me just how much I appreciate him. Though some of the moments were stressful with the unknowns, he kept searching, sending resumés, and making phone calls.

His indomitable spirit will carry us through the years to come. I'm so proud of him - and so grateful that God placed me with a man who charges boldly through challenges. There is such a dramatic difference between him and men I have dated in the past. Praise the Good Lord! He knew exactly what I needed!

Current Reading

My wonderful fiancé just scheduled our first meeting with the priest, who is preparing us. I am very excited about focussing on the sacramental component!



This afternoon, I took 15 minutes of my lunch outside to begin a recommended read, "Marriage: A Path to Sanctity."



This part did crack me up:

Courtship is a stage in the process wherein two people decide to get married. Call it the period midway between a 'swinging single' and a married person.

I am so glad to be out of the "swinging single" stage!

Prayer of an Engaged Couple

Lord Jesus, to teach us to love one another, You became one of us, taking as a tabernacle the body of Mary. You said: "Be one in each other, even as I and the Father are one." You have desired that he and I should live in You as with a single life, like two branches of a single vine, which Your providence has entwined. Let our love pass through You, that it may realize a perfect union, not only of our hearts but also of our souls, and that, growing from day to day, it may likewise increase our life in You. Help us to bring to our home enough beauty, health, thrift, strength, purity, and ideals, to make it a model of the new world we wish to build with You, and to give You priests, perhaps, but certainly apostles. With all this, let us never forget that it is through us that Your kingdom must be established--in factories, offices, shops, in all the places we frequent, in our streets and houses . . . on earth as in heaven. Have pity on all those youths and maidens whose hearts are wounded and whose dreams are broken. Guard the promises which have been made according to Your Spirit. And may Your blessing soon give us to each other forever. Amen.