Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Married Life

It's been months since I've blogged...and although I have multiple things running through my head that I'd like to write about, I feel it would be most appropriate to write briefly about being married. I cannot tell you how many times I've been asked about it....on facebook, through text message, phone calls...everyone wants to know how "married life is treating me". So here it is...

Even through the stench of morning breath, and the awkwardness of having to relieve yourself with the one you love in ear shot (yuck), we are thrilled to be married to eachother. Chris and I feel like we have just walked right into one answered prayer after another this past year, and are enjoying every second of it. After many months of praying for a job, I finally starting working in February. It is not necessarily the job of my dreams, but I am working, enjoying it, and loving my self-determined schedule even more. :)

Chris, on the other hand, is within a few months of finishing his first year of Cardiology fellowship. (1st of 5!!! oh dear) His hours are crazy to say the least. We went through a stretch of 21 days (Saturday and Sunday included, no days off) of getting up at 4am...some days he didn't make it home till 8 or 9pm. He was exhausted, I was impatient...we joked that we felt like Bill Murray in the movie "Goundhog Day". The monotony was suffocating! But on the bad days, I would spent a little extra time with the Lord and He would gently reassure me that this is all part of His plan. He is SO faithful. One day in particular, Chris came home after having an awful day; his confidence had been trampled and I could see the doubts creeping into his head about everything he was doing. I tried to reassure him about his talent, instinct, and intelligence (and if u know Chris at all, you know I'm not saying that just because he's my husband...its so true) but he wouldn't hear any of it. The very next day the wife of one of Chris's patients presented him with a book entitled, "Here's to You...thank you for being you" with a handwritten note inside thanking Chris for"giving her husband back to her", calling him one of those "golden people", and acknowledging the care with which Chris took with her husband. God's timing is perfect, isn't it?

When Chris and I were in Kenya, one weekend a big group of us American students went to a resort for a safari. A bunch of the group was swimming in the pool, Chris included, and I was reading in a lawn chair, but I had left my flip flops on the edge of the pool. Well, Chris was throwing the frisbee, splashing all around, and just simply was getting my flip flops all wet. Annoyed, I got up and retrieved my sandals...

"What? Don't you trust me?" he asked, throwing his arms in the air.
"I trust you with my heart." Was my sarcastic reply...meaning that I only trusted him with my physiologic heart due to his work with cardiology, and implying that I didn't trust him with my sandals, let alone anything else.
"Aww. Hey guys, did you hear that? Leah said she trusts me with her heart." He patronizingly said to everyone there, embarrassing the crap out of me.

Little did I know how ironic that short conversation was with this acquaintence I had just met. Now I can say without a doubt that I trust Chris completely with my life, my love, and of course, my heart. Even when he works a thousand hours, Chris makes sure I feel loved a million times more. Many moments I utter a quiet prayer..."Really, God? You picked him for me?"

Whether Chris and I feel we deserve eachother or not, one thing is for sure...we feel called to eachother and to God. God has laid hopes and dreams on both of our hearts and we pray everyday that we are moving together in God's direction to fulfill those plans, and hopefully bringing glory to Him in the process....

...and that is how married life is so far... :)