“This is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another” (1 John 3:11 ESV).
A hand-painted sign above my front door reads “Love one another” in elegant script. While the lettering and words are beautiful, I have the sentiment displayed there not because I like how it looks, but because I need the daily reminder to follow God’s command both inside and outside my home.
These divinely inspired words were sung in a hymn at my wedding ten years ago, but looking back over the last decade of life, loss, motherhood, and marriage, I’m not so sure I really understood what they meant at the time.
I’m married to my best friend, the only person I ever truly wanted to spend the rest of my life with, the man I fell for at the beginning of college and not-so-patiently pursued for the next three years. Yet marriage has been more difficult than I ever imagined. My husband and I are true opposites, and we’ve been pushing each other out of our comfort zones since we first met.
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