Now, I won't go into detail about our dating years but they were quick and our engagement was even quicker. We were ready or so we thought. We were married by the lake shore in Green Lake, Wi on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
The honeymoon didn't last very long and we were knee deep into real marriage by the second month. Things were hard, plain and simple. We both had expectations about marriage that were not being met. To top it off we experienced two of our miscarriages in that first year. We didn't know how to handle all that hard ache.
God brought us through a lot and looking back he ordained every move and every circumstance to bring us to where we are today. My parents were in a horrible motorcycle accident back in 2009 and we were living 7 hrs away at the time. I got in my car and never came back until we were moving our things back to Illinois. I bring this up because it is a key point in our ordain appointment coming soon. This move brought us back to my parents but it also brought us to The Edge, a church that changed our marriage completely around. Because of this church and the community we experienced going there we have gained some great friends and mentors. They have taught us how to love each other better and others more appropriately. And our relationship with God has grown tremendously.
Now, if you know me you know that I have wanted a tattoo for a long time. What more perfect way to mark this moment than to get tattoos together. I knew Adam wouldn't go for this. He has been telling me no for years. He told me he wanted it to mean something. Well, I went off that and told him what was going to mean more than us getting our vows renewed. He was hesitant. I shared with him my idea of a tattoo and I gained a little bit of ground. I stopped. I didn't want to persuade him to get a tattoo if it really wasn't something he wanted and would regret later down the road. So as I sat in silence and I prayed. I asked God to give Adam wisdom in this decision and if he wanted him to do this that He would speak to him now and give him a clear cut answer. I said Amen and Adam spoke up and said, "Ok, lets do it!" I was shocked and excited at the same time. I researched a place and we were on our way.
The place was called Eternal Ink Tattoo. We pulled up and immediately noticed the nice Harley parked our front. "Sweet ride" we said to each other as we walked to the front door. We walked in and the owner, Sonny, was putting on his coat to leave for the night. He was your stereotypical tattoo artist, a harley guy with tattoos lining his arm. He asked us what he could help us with and we told him, "We want tattoos." As we described what kind of tattoo we were looking for he decided that he could fit us in since it wasn't going to take but 10 min each. Right away Sonny's personality stuck out to me. He was funny and really made us feel welcomed right away. We asked him to tattoo Phil. 2:3-4 on both of our left wrist. As he prepared our tattoos we began talking to him and guess what? We found out he is a believer as well. He was even playing christian rock music in the back ground. We spent 2 hours in that tattoo place that night talking and getting to know each other. At the end of our time there he brought us over to his desk and said he wanted to read us something. He pulled our his bible and began to read James 1:2-8 to us. I was in tears immediately. What he was speaking to us was coming straight from God and directed to us about our many years of marriage struggles. It completed the whole renewing our vows experience. We walked away that day with amazing tattoos, an amazing experience and an amazing new friend, that invited us to dinner the next time we were in town. God is so good.
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