Walking Hand-in-Hand

How quickly time flies. Twenty-six years years ago today I married my lovely bride on a day that was cold and nasty in Upper Michigan. It was about 30 degrees with freezing rain; a 60 mile drive took us almost 2 hours to navigate. Today, it was about 18 degrees with about a 4 degree windchill. Lovely indeed.

It is amazing to think back over the years and see how God has worked.

• I am from a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
• Becky was from central Iowa.
• I went to college in the Florida Panhandle.
• Bec went to college in south central Wisconsin.
• We met in middle Tennessee during one week of summer camp after our sophomore years of college.
• I was working on summer staff at the camp.
• Bec was there for only one week as a church chaperone.
• The boys from her church were assigned to my cabin.
• They felt that she and I should meet.
• The rest, as they say is history. Suffice it to say, I just bowled her over with my rugged handsomeness and incredible wit and charm...or something like that.

Consider for a moment how unlikely it was that we would even meet, let alone continue to stay in touch and then in time marry. It was definitely most unlikely that we would meet and then marry, yet God accomplished what only He could do. And 26 years since we married I look back and say, "How wonderful is my God that He has blessed me so."

Thanks you, my Heavenly Father for the wife you have given me. Thank you, Rebecca, for being such a wonderful wife.