Dear Sean,

My beloved husband, we have been married almost two years now (can you believe it?) and though it has been far from easy, I can say with every ounce of my being and full confidence that I am thankful the Lord brought us together. You make me a better woman. I have never seen my sin more clearly or had to focus on the Gospel more steadily than when I am with you. In moments that the overwhelming view of my sin threatens to engulf and drown me completely you are always by my side to pull me up out of those murky waters and saturate me instead with the pure and refreshing water of the Gospel. I have never seen the Gospel so living and breathing as I do when I look upon you. You breathe life into all of the things I read about our Savior. When I believe I am unlovable because of the myriad of ways I have scorned and hurt you, you gently reach down, engulf me in your arms, and show me nothing but unexplainable and undeserved love. You reach down into my sin and into the most broken and insecure parts of who I am, lift them up into the light to inspect them fully, and when you place them back I am an improved human being because you have accepted and then saturated them with Truth. Every offense that could be heinous and vile - I have committed against you - and yet, though I will never understand why, you continue to shower me with love and grace. I don't deserve such love, but it seems the less deserving I am the more abundantly you offer it. Thank you for showing me the love that Jesus has for us both in ways that no one ever has for me before. I pray that I would be able to love you and others with the same love you have bestowed upon me. I am beyond blessed to be your beloved and betrothed. Happy Valentine's Day.


From our first Valentine's Day til death do us part - I will always love you.