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It's our 10th anniversary! Want to hear what happened right before the wedding?

One week prior to our big day, we were en route to a ministry retreat when rioting broke out in a community we were serving. From the road, we managed to have a Ugandan pastor moved from xenophobic uproar into the townhouse we would move into after our wedding.

We returned a few days later with massive sinus infections and discovered our pre-wedding housing would not have electricity for the week. Plans rapidly evolved while we navigated delayed flights, a community's safety, new accommodations, and trying to get well.

Chris took our car for an emergency repair on our wedding morning so we could drive to our honeymoon, where a police officer tried to arrest us at the Lesotho border for bribe money. Ever-cool Mr. Ladd negotiated our freedom by offering him stickers for his children.

It felt like a miracle when we got home. Our family of three was together for the first time. I'd been a single parent in dangerous conditions for years and thought this was when things would get easier. A wise couple had told us, "The day you get married is the day you'll find out how selfish you really are." They were right!

It's not big events, like weddings or crises, that shape who we are. It's daily details and micro-decisions. Chris and I were capable of feeding thousands of children and developing communities side-by-side, but we couldn't figure out how to co-exist in a kitchen for over a year! We've spent a decade learning to love by always kissing each other goodnight and choosing "us" when we don't feel like it.

True love is all day, every day, no matter how it feels. It chooses relationship over reason, forgiveness over offense. Love saves us from our futile self-serving nature.

True love is Jesus. You are already fully loved by Him. You only have to believed to be saved.

Listen to Chris Tomlin's "Jesus Saves".