One Month Down, a Lifetime to Go...

So, in thinking about what to write today, I came up with the title "One Month Down, a Lifetime to Go". Today marks exactly one month that I've been married!

Having the title to my blog post, doesn't necessarily mean I know what I'm going to write about though. For me, writing a blog is a journey. I may start one place, discover some cool things along the way, but end up in a completely different place. So now, on to the journey!

I have to say that marriage isn't bad at all. I have someone to come home to every night who is just as happy to see me as I am to see her. Some people reach this same fulfillment by having a dog, but Adriane is a far cry from a dog! Trust me, she is 100% woman!

So after one month, I have 5 conclusions I can now safely make:

1. I'm really really happy!
2. I have the most awesome wife in the world!
3. I have no regrets about getting married or who I married.
4. I wish I would have taken the plunge sooner, as long as it would have involved Adriane.
5. I truly believe that the "lifetime" we have left to live will be filled with more joy and happiness than sadness and despair.

I wanna discuss my fifth conclusion a little more in depth. So when I think about the lifetime of things that Adriane and I will experience in the next 80 years, my head spins! I first think about how happy we're going to be when our children are born. I can only imagine how happy a time of life that will be for us! Then I think about the loss of our parents, and I can't imagine the amount of pain that will be.

Next I think about the excitement associated with our child's first step, their first day of school, their graduation day from high school and college, their wedding day, and the day they bring our first grandchild home from the hospital. It is then that I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that life surely holds more happiness for us than sadness.

When I think of the future, and all it holds, I always remember this Bible verse:

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11

It is for all these reasons that I have to encourage anyone out there feeling despair and sadness that times may be hard now, but in the end, the happiness will surely outweigh the sadness, especially if God has anything to do with it.