We asked a Lowell observatory employee to take our picture. He did and I thanked him. Then I asked him to video us dancing. He was slightly unsure how to respond to this request. Eric was slightly mortified that I made the request. Hey, but now we have an awkward dancing clip of us together at lowell observatory! and a memory that makes me laugh. Such a win.
We actually had a different song picked out for our weekend theme song, but by the end of the weekend--with the river and all the hiking and the wind--this song was stuck in my head and so it seemed more fitting.
And I do realize that no one besides my family will really care much about these videos, but they are fun to make. :)
I was 19 the day that Eric and I got married and I had my whole perfect life PLANNED out—a time table, a list of goals, EXPECTATIONS, and dreams. But LIFE gave me something EVEN BETTER than my limited vision and plans: a chance to learn and grow and BECOME by experiencing infertility, foster care, adoption, special needs (autism) parenting, breast cancer, and more. Our lives are often challenging, PAINFUL, and complicated, yet it is no doubt that they are GLORIOUS, wonderful, and exciting, too. Our EXPERIENCES, the ones we DELIBERATELY seek out and the ones we would never have picked but we have to MUDDLE through anyways, SHAPE us. We CHOOSE what that shape will look like in the end by our ATTITUDE and our willingness to EMBRACE the moments of life. For it is the MOMENTS that DEFINE us. I choose to WALK FORWARD in the BRIGHTNESS of hope by noticing those moments, LEARNING as much as I can, SEEKING the good, and TRUSTING in a loving God.
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