One Year Ago....

It was one year ago - I posted my first "before fig leaves."

It is abundantly clear that I am not likely to be a "professional" bloggers with thousands of follower, and everything else important in the blogosphere.  That is okay - it was never my intention.  Over the past year, I put up 25 posts and pages were viewed some 2600 times.  The engineer in me just can't help but to run the numbers - 100 views per page (even if they were people who just ended up there by mistake:-)  Somewhere in all of that, something good must have happened.

I still think that marriage is awesome, that people should move toward the awesomeness of marriage, and that I have insights which are useful - so I will continue.  I will allow this anniversary of marriage blogging to give me a nudge back into something important, supporting marriage.

This marriage was something to be happy about.

Over the past month I have been involved in one marriage that happened, and one that didn't.  I celebrate them both.  It will be a fun challenge for the newlyweds to build a great marriage.  And the couple who pulled the plug a few weeks out - it was the right thing for them to do.  Because once you take the plunge, make the commitment, join in covenant together before God - you are in it, and there is no way out.  You can never again be someone who has not married.

So the way to make the most of it is to dig in and make it great!  An average marriage is okay, a rocky marriage wears you out, and divorce just sucks on so many levels it is tragic.  Average, rocky or on the edge of the end - the best option is change.  Not the destructive change of divorce, but the healing change of truly finding something new and experiencing healing in your marriage.  If this blog can help anyone anywhere find this change - it is worth it.