Here we are...

January of 2009! Who wouldda thought the two of us would be sitting here blogging about our wonderful marriage? In years past, not many. Our story is this:

We started off on this journey in 1990. We had both just embraced Jesus Christ as the Lord of our lives and were following hard after Him. Then life set in--anger, addiction, self-centeredness, children, baggage from every bad place we'd ever been. We ripped each other up, tore each other apart and eventually counted the days until the last of the six children would be out of the house. We had our marriage on the clock, the one counting down to what we thought would be freedom.

We went to church most Sundays, loved the Lord, were active in ministry and threw ourselves at the foot of the Cross every time we really screwed up. No one knew how broken we were, how much we didn't even talk to each other. But God did, and in response to a deep and desperate cry one lonely afternoon, He touched our lives in a way that changed us forever.

We decided to create this blog to share our experience, strength and hope, because when marriages break up, everyone is crushed--for generations--and it doesn't have to be that way.