c johnt: Bosom Friends

As Max and I just celebrated our one-year anniversary we’ve been thinking been thinking back on things quite a bit. I admit it was challenging and stretching. Someone was saying the other day that you can feel like you’re a pretty decent person, and then you get married and realize how selfish and stubborn, and emotional you are. I couldn’t agree more. What I love about that is that it drives me closer to the heart of the Lord, yearning and asking for more of His wisdom, guidance, and character to be developed in my life.

A little unexpected, but another thing I have been thinking about quite a bit is all the female friends in my life. I’ve realized that marriage in no way takes the place of those relationships. Max is amazingly sweet, and did watch 4 out 5 hours of BBC’s Pride and Prejudice before confessing he was completely lost and that it made no sense to him. Oh what a dear man! But the women in my life, my bosom friends, they are irreplaceable. I’ve been recounting to myself the many memories of late night chats, midday strolls, tears, laughter, and incontrollable giggling. I wish I could tell each one of you all of my fondest memories and how much they mean to me. I decided to go the picture route, but soon found that most of my old pictures are on my external hard drive, which we lost the power cord to. So here's what I could dig up.