Thirty Years

December 30 will mark the wedding anniversary of my wife and me. Thinking back, I was a very young 21 and in the middle of my 4th (of 5 years) year in college at Eastern Kentucky University. Joy was (still is!) 2 years my senior. We'd dated for 1 1/2 years before our engagement (which lasted about 6 months). I knew by our first date that things could get very serious and it was easy to imagine being married to her. Since then much water has passed... three children, way too many job changes and up and down times in our marriage. But we have survived so far and God has been very, very gracious. She is the love of my life and God willing we'll have many, many more celebrations.