My parents are adorable.

No really, they are!

Like many marriages, theirs started because they “had” to get married. Because they were going to have me.

Growing up, I didn’t really think much about that detail. They were just my parents. We were just a family.

Until several years ago when I had a conversation with a relative I had not seen in years. He had experienced a lot of family challenges growing up, but had given his heart to Christ and had broken free of many of his family’s spiritual strongholds.

He too knew the basics of my parents beginnings and in the conversation he made the comment, “You know, they didn’t start out under the best of circumstances but together they made a marriage, they made a home, they made a family, and they made a life, and that spoke volumes to me.”

I had never thought of it like that before but that is EXACTLY what they did! Continue reading