What Wondrous Love is This

Over the past few months, tune of "What Wondrous Love is This" has run through my head over and over again. "What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul! What wondrous love is this, O my soul!"
What wondrous love indeed! Hubs and I celebrated our wedding 1 month ago, on July 13, 2018 with our friends, families, our sons, and our God! I can't believe it has been one month already!
What wondrous love my Hubs has for me. The poor man came home to his new bride on the one month anniversary of our wedding day with a horrible headache in jammies folding laundry and watching the Office. Without hesitation or mention of what he had planned, he snuggled in to finish folding and cuddle through the end of the episode before putting me in bed with a back massage! What a man!!! He has served me in more ways than I can count! He has graciously walked with me as we figure out how to meet one another's needs as the OTHER one needs them to be met, not how we want to meet them, as we figure out how to co-parent, as we figure out how to be married again.
What wondrous love our boys have for us and each other! Bman and MP3 have been asked to adjust to more in the 7 and 6 years of life than most people have been asked in a lifetime! These sweet boys have adjusted beautifully to having a permanent play date, best friend, and competitor. It has not been all smooth sailing as Hubs and I have dried many tears from their eyes and helped navigate sibling rivalry. As 2 only children, they have been working through not having their bio-parent's full attention and having the new boundaries of a bonus-parent. Yet, they are open armed with love and kindness that blow us away!
What wondrous love our God has for us. Hubs and I have very similar stories and joke that we are finally living our parallel lives together. Both our first spouses past from cancer by the time we were 30 leaving us each with a son not even 2. We both moved from out of state back to MI near family and have both owned a home as a single parent. Only God could have walked with us through the horror of cancer and death to prepare our hearts to welcome life and love again. What incredible care He has shown in giving our boys a brother who understands what it feels like to yearn for your first parent while God's provision stands before you with arms open. What amazing foresight God displayed in the careful details connecting us that we would be able to have knowledgeable compassion for each other's triggers. What joyous redemption we have experienced as God brings life from death!
God's plan and timing does not always make sense, nor is it easy. However, it is ALWAYS good!

P.S. Thank you to Jillian Melissa Photography for capturing our beautiful day!

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  1. UnknownAugust 14, 2018 at 11:35 AM

    Well said - so thankful for how you've all been blessed in this transition!!

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  2. MelmuffinAugust 14, 2018 at 2:20 PM

    I am so happy for you both! What an amazing story of love and it is so obvious that He wants us to find love in one another on earth. So happy you found each other.
    You all have been blessed.

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