2 Year Anniversary!

Two years down, forever to go.
 
Harry and I celebrated our two year anniversary on April 1st.

Our second year was a difficult one for me.

I struggled a lot personally but Harry never left my side and for that, I am forever grateful.

I love you, Harry!

It's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to...

My 28th birthday was a huge success! We went out to dinner at Red Robin. We partied until early morning down at 90's. We ate cake and popped confetti poppers at 3:30 in the morning. My sister went all out for my birthday and she truly made me feel special. 

Right Person Myth

Check out last weekends message at EBC here. Seriously, you won't regret it!!

- Marriage is less about finding the right kind of person and more about becoming the right kind of person.

- Divorce rate is 50%

- Divorce rate is 33 to 151% higher (depending on the study) if you live together before marriage

- Women desire intimacy and oneness of a relationship but end up settling for cohabitation.

- Women who live with their significant other before marriage are 3 times more likely to be depressed

   - If they do get married, they report marital conflict and less marital happiness

- 40% of EBC is single

- Don't follow your heart.

  - Jeremiah 19:9

  - Proverbs 14:12

  - Proverbs 3: 5-6

- Don't blindly follow your heart or feelings

- Ask yourself, when the infatuation wears off how capable is this person of going through a life crisis? What is their character and integrity life?

  - Infatuation will answer yes to the questions above

- We are never called to find a person that we can have an emotional infatuation with. He calls us to find a person that we can share a mission with.

- Give God your undivided attention.

- 1 Corinthians 7:32-35

- Being single is your time to give God UNdivided devotion

- God can bring the right person while you are serving Him and focusing your attention on Him.

- Singleness is not a time to despise, it is a time to embrace.

- Pursuing marriage should never become your primary pursuit.

- Choosing the wrong guys? It's because you are doing the choosing.

- Don't marry a fixer upper.

- Buying a fixer upper is risky, dating a fixer upper is foolish.

- 2 Corinthians 6:14 "Don't team up with unbelievers."

- Don't marry a wiener.

- Do you trust that God is able to provide for you a Godly spouse?

- Only God can change a persons heart.

- Become the kind of person you want to marry.

  - Selfless, humble, generous

- Spend energy from looking for the right person to becoming the right person.

- Couples who read the Bible and prayed together on a daily basis have a divorce rate of less than 1%

- Spiritual growth indicators: Christian friends and personal ministry (help others know Christ) 

- Pray to God to change character trait and find Bible verses to help you change (anger)

  - If you get two people in marriage who do this, that is when marriage gets good, it gets fun!

- Jeremiah 29:11

Christian Pickup Lines

 10 Christian Pick- Up Lines

1. Hey girl, I put the "stud" in Bible Study.

2. Hey girl, I was reading through the book of Numbers and realized I didn't have yours.

3. Hey girl, I'm not Boax but you can glean my fields any time.

4. Hey girl, if I march around you 7 times, would you fall for me?

5. Hey girl, would you be in my purpose- driven life?

6. Hey girl, I think one of my ribs belongs to you.

7. Hey girl, me... you... Song of Songs... the remix.

8. Hey girl, I didn't believe in pre- destination, until tonight.

9. Have you died before? That looks like a resurrection body to me! 

10. Hey girl, can I come to your church? I want to see your body... of Christ.

Thank you @davemelendez on Twitter for sharing these funny Christian Pick- Up lines.