Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Young And Madly In Love


Ken and I mentored Erin and Taylor a few years back.  They were 21 years old at the time and had been in love since they were 16.  Both of them had very teachable spirits and wanted to do the marriage thing right.

They got married in July of 2011.  They were just blessed with adorable identical twin girls.  She began a blog and wrote a post 21 Interesting Facts About Me.  The several that caught my eye were ~

My goal in life is to be a Titus 2 wife.
It's pretty disgusting how much I love my husband.
I hope to one day, if it's in God's will for us to do premarital counseling.  God created marriage to be such a beautiful thing and I believe he wants everyone to truly enjoy tit.
I love my life as a wife and stay at home momma.

I follow her on Facebook.  She consistently raves about her husband and loving marriage.  Yes, she's only been married a few years but she could mentor many older women who have been married for many years on how to do marriage right.  It doesn't matter how old you are or how long you've been married, when you obey God and do things His way, you reap His blessings.  They are reaping His blessings at a very young age.

She knows how to love and obey her husband.  She wants to please Taylor and make him happy. She understands the value of being a keeper at home.  Her twins are two very blessed little girls who were brought into this world with parents who are deeply committed to the institution of marriage and each other.

Erin makes being married look easy.  I am sure it is not always easy and she fails at times, but she knows the right path, the narrow path, and has chosen to walk on it and someday her husband and children are going to rise up and call her blessed.

Enjoy life with the woman whom you love 
all the days of your fleeting life which 
He has given to you under the sun; 
for this is your reward in life, 
and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:9

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Thank you again! I almost teared up. I will have to check out her fb page. I have commented a few times. But now my marriage is going better than ever. Why? Because whenever we hit a tough spot, I always always always fall back on the biblical principles you teach about marriage. Our huge blowups about trivial things are now speed bumps like a healthy marriage should have. The blowups are very few these days. I submit, obey, and try to be a living sacrifice as much as I can. The continual encouragement I receive from your blog is priceless (in the true sense of the word). I would not take a million dollars for not using your blog in my marriage. It is absolutely crucial and YOU and your ministry are a blessing. I went I to marriage with the wrong guy. But I believed that God ultimately chooses whom you should marry. Now we are going through life as one instead of two. And our marriage has been blessed because of my obedience (not meant as a horn toot for myself, but justsayin'). Thank you and I will continue to pray for you and now Erin because I admire her. Thanks!!
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Wow! Thank you. I appreciate the encouragement and I love hearing about marriages working the way God intended them to work.
You know, you are very right about just being obedient to God and showing love to your husband even if you don't feel like it. The other day, Jonathan was upset with me about something and said something that hurt my feelings before work, but I bit my tongue, and then went to God in prayer and asked him to help me forgive Jonathan for what he said. Then I sent Jonathan a text and told him, "Thank you for going to the store to get me that before work. I love you and hope that you have a good day." I didn't think that simple text message would do much, but goodness, he responded so well! Ever since then I feel like he has just been so much more loving towards me. God's ways are so opposite from what the world says to do, but it really does work out for our good. I love it! I'm very thankful to God for learning this early in my marriage because we were having such problems earlier in the year and I was really worried that we might not last. I can't praise God enough for His faithfulness!

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