The end is near

In less than 3 weeks from now, Lynea and I will have already embarked on a new journey affectionately known as marriage. As the end of our singleness draws near, we're beginning to learn new lessons in selflessness, humility and love. Over the past couple years, we've built our friendship and communication skills, talked about our pasts and dreamed about our future. We've been together for months at a time and traveled apart for what seemed like forever (though it was only a few months). We've asked other people for wisdom, read books together, learned each others strengths and weaknesses and sleeping habits and eating methods. We've learned how to be patient and how to express our feelings with each other, how to have deep conversations and playful ones. We've laughed and played and danced and climbed trees and sang and even cried a few times. Yet there is still the unknown of what it will be like living everyday with the same person for the rest of your life; what it will be like to wake up every morning with this person's morning breath and slobber all up in your face. I imagine that there will be times to celebrate and times to cry, times to be together every second of every day and times to give each other a bit of space, times to be romantic and times to be brutally honest. We don't expect marriage to be the solution to all problems, and we don't expect each other to meet our every need. But we do expect something beautiful and fresh to come out of this joining of our lives as we begin a new life together. And we hope that you can celebrate this with us!!