Here I am, 457 miles away from home in Waynesville, Missouri. It's been 99 days
since the best day of my life; the day I married Jeremy David Sledge.
A fairytale wedding, more than I could have ever dreamed for myself.
It was also the day that I vowed these words:
"I am confident that God has chosen you to be my husband. God has prepared me for
you and so I vow to always love you unconditionally. Throughout all of life’s
experiences, I promise to be an obedient and faithful wife. That through His
grace, we might grow together in the likeness of Christ.
I vow to have the patience that love demands and to know the difference between
duty and your love for me. I will rejoice in your joys and weep in your sorrows.
Without your love, I am incomplete. Your faith gives me strength. You are every
prayer, every dream, every hope I’ve ever had. Every day that we are together is
the greatest day of my life.
Where you go, I will go.
Where you stay, I will stay. I choose you eternally."
So in the 8,553,600 and some odd seconds that we have been married,
I have most definitely questioned my ability to be the wife that he deserves;
the noble army wife that so many people commend me for being.
I read an article recently that summed up the emotions I have felt over the past three months of marriage and finding my place in this home away from home. I hope that it gives another
young couple the same peace that it has given me.
"When you marry young, you’ll change and he’ll change, and in
the midst of all of this growth you’ll realize that you can’t change each other.
There will be moments and days and seasons that are really hard. And you’ll be
tempted to think it’s because you got married young, but really, it’s just
because you got married."
since the best day of my life; the day I married Jeremy David Sledge.
A fairytale wedding, more than I could have ever dreamed for myself.
It was also the day that I vowed these words:
"I am confident that God has chosen you to be my husband. God has prepared me for
you and so I vow to always love you unconditionally. Throughout all of life’s
experiences, I promise to be an obedient and faithful wife. That through His
grace, we might grow together in the likeness of Christ.
I vow to have the patience that love demands and to know the difference between
duty and your love for me. I will rejoice in your joys and weep in your sorrows.
Without your love, I am incomplete. Your faith gives me strength. You are every
prayer, every dream, every hope I’ve ever had. Every day that we are together is
the greatest day of my life.
Where you go, I will go.
Where you stay, I will stay. I choose you eternally."
So in the 8,553,600 and some odd seconds that we have been married,
I have most definitely questioned my ability to be the wife that he deserves;
the noble army wife that so many people commend me for being.
I read an article recently that summed up the emotions I have felt over the past three months of marriage and finding my place in this home away from home. I hope that it gives another
young couple the same peace that it has given me.
"When you marry young, you’ll change and he’ll change, and in
the midst of all of this growth you’ll realize that you can’t change each other.
There will be moments and days and seasons that are really hard. And you’ll be
tempted to think it’s because you got married young, but really, it’s just
because you got married."