Adventures, Love and Love

What a morning! I'm eating my favorite breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast all so nicely fixed into a sandwich with a bit of mayonaise on top...yum! Being the typical college student that I am, I had some homework due at midnight yesterday in two of my online classes. When did I start on it? Ha, I started on it as soon as I got home from work at 6. What time did I submit it? 11:55 P.M. But I made it!! :) Anyways...that was totally off topic. But seriously, who DOESN"T procrastinate in college? If my mother were here right now (or maybe she's even reading this blog entry!) I just know what she'd say: "Caroline, may God help the man who is going to marry you, because every day he lives with you is going to be an adventure." Oh, he's going to have all kinds of things with me alright, and adventures are going to be at the top of the list!!! Let's talk about what my lucky future hubby will be facing on a day-to-day basis with me. Besides, on the 30 Day Song Challenge on Facebook I'm supposed to post a song I want to play at my wedding, and I can't decide between "Not Like the Movies" by Katy Perry or "The Day Before You" by Matthew West, so weddings/marriage is currently on my mind. :)

1. Adventure! Some of these will be great, some of these adventures will be challenging. For example, recently I have been sitting in a Bible study and as I closed my Bible, all of the pages fell out, no joke. A few months later, I was late for my sister's graduation and since my seat was on the reserved seating on the field, I literally had to run between students (who were starting to walk) and jump to the seats. Awkward!!! But I hope some of the adventures my husband has with me are great. For example, I like to give food away to homeless people and talk to them. I love to help people in need. One of my biggest dreams is to travel and live overseas for a while, and if I'm lucky my husband will think that's an adventure, too. Most of all, I live an adventure each day as I get closer to God and see how indescribable He is. My husband will be living adventures with God, too.

2. Love. Hahaha okay that totally sounds cheesy....but let me expound! I'm going to love my husband, period. But when I say love, I'm not just going to think that he's hot or that he makes a great companion. I am going to love him, and when I say love, I mean serve him. There are going to be times when he is in a bad mood and not so loveable, but I'm going to be there for him and be the support that he needs. He might do silly little things that drive me crazy, such as popping his gum, but I'm going to not let that bug me. I'm going to be his cheerleader when he needs encouragement, yet I'm going to be honest with him when he's messed up. However, I will be honest in a gentle and loving way. I will be madly in love with everything about him and I will happily tell my friends what a great husband I married. Finally, I will never stop loving him. When I say "I do," I do not take that lightly. I will be with him until "death do us part." I will always love him unconditionally. I will love him with a John 15:14 love. I will happily lay down my life for him.

3. Love. I'm mentioning this twice because love is two ways. If a marriage is going to be successfull (thanks Dale Johnson, my old New Testament professor, for this analogy!) then the man has to give everything to the woman unselfishly and the woman must give everything to the man unselfishly. The love for each other must be a two-way street. I will love my husband and in order for our marriage to be a success, he must also love me. My husband will serve me. He will be there for me when I'm grumpy, have nothing to say, or when my world is falling apart. He will listen to me when I need to talk and will hold me in my arms as I cry. There are going to be some moments where I will not be loveable and yet he will overcome that fact and still love me. I will be his most valued treasure and he will boast of me. We will go through hard times in our marriage with life's events, but we will never give up.  He will love me until "death do us part."

There are so many other little things that my husband will probably have to go through with me, but as he goes through the day-to-day adventures of being married to a red head named Caroline, my only requirements are that he goes through adventures with God, meaning that he has a growing relationship with God, and that he will love me despite my weaknesses. When I close my eyes and imagine my marriage one day, I know that it will be made up of adventures, love and love. I cannot wait until that day...