five minute friday: the hard love

11 years ago today I married my best friend.  Our love has been easy.  2 weeks after we met we knew we'd be married.  2 years later, after my college graduation and his first "real, grown-up" job, we were.  And here we are 11 years later...in love as ever...but so different.

For us the difficulty hasn't been the love, it's been the dreams.  Sharing dreams and watching them shatter and having to pick them up and rework them again and again.  Watching God take our path and mold it to His desire...so much different from what we anticipated.

Yesterday we met with an adoption worker for the first time.  Then we came home and watched an Mtv show called 16 and pregnant where the agency played a part in the story.  It was heart wrenching.  And so beautiful.  These children made the choice of hard love that I never will.  At their tender age they were already making unselfish choices for their daughter's future.

Now, that's hard love.