Where did the time go?????

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No clue!

I remember my Berhan saying to me, jokingly, “We’re going to have three kids! And I name the first one, Abel, then the second one, I know she is going to be a girl and I will name her Lydia, and I will let you name the third one.” And I always say, “Only three kids??????”

Then we received our son, Abel, from the Lord and I said, “No more kids!”????

Why?

Abel was a handful! Being first time mom, all by myself the whole day until my husband came back from work, I thought I couldn’t handle that little human being. I protested to my husband, saying, “You’re the one who brought this human being! I didn’t come up with the idea! You did! Now look at my life”???

By the way, I still protest whenever one of my children annoys me. Just two days ago, I said, “After all, bringing children into this marriage was your idea, not mine! You brought these people into this world.”

Guess what my husband said to me, “Yes, I brought them into this world! Whenever you want me to take them out, just let me know.” – My husband way of making me shut my mouth! ??????

I not only love this man but I also enjoy being with him 24/7. (Thanks for the pandemic, I now have my husband next to me even in weekdays. What more do I need?)

God’s blessed me with three beautiful children from the man I keep on falling in love with. I thank God for that!

We got married 25 years ago and we celebrate our anniversary this coming Sunday, March 27.

We legally got married on March 27, 1997. So it is a “marriage anniversary,” not a wedding anniversary.

We didn’t have a wedding, only wedding pictures which we took after 8 years of our official marriage, after we had three of our beautiful children. In our wedding pictures, our kids were our bridesmaid (our daughter) and groomsmen (our two sons).

In short, we were living in sin. And God, may His name be praised forever, forgave us, took us out of darkness and brought us into His marvelous light and saved us! So we did not want to live another day in a sinful life. We went ahead and got married.

If God was not between us, Berhan and I wouldn’t even celebrate our first anniversary, let alone 25th one.

So we say, “God is the Author of our stories.”

The word of God says,

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.”
1 Peter 2:9-11 ESV

May the name of God be praised! We did not deserve the mercy of God, but we received His mercy! We were not worthy to be called people of God but now we are called by His name!

What a merciful, graceful and compassionate God He is!

What can we say except to say, thank You, LORD! ///

P. S. I am planning to celebrate our anniversary on this page for the next seven days, until Sunday! Hope you join me?.