Today is Erin's 25th birthday! Currently she's at the VA in her Internal Medicine rotation, this happens to be my Friday off so I'm at home with the canines.... I just wanted to throw up a tribute to my bride and best friend. Marriage is a scary thing because you take the risk of being completely exposed to someone.....nobody knows your dark places better than your spouse and believe me folks, I'm messed up.... and yet Erin loves me and embraces me. There's no greater intimacy between two human beings than to be completely vulnerable before someone with all your faults and scars and to have them respond with love and affirmation. So I'm eternally grateful that God has given me someone who can love me when I'm very unlovely, someone who challenges me intellectually (she's in med school..... so she's brilliant), someone who challenges me emotionally - I can't hide from my wife - she makes me more human.... more complete, and someone who challenges me spiritually - I treat everyone else like I'm the standard for excellence and with Erin I see my reflection.... I see in her how I relate to others and it prompts a myriad of responses from repentance to adoration.
Happy Birthday Erin - thank you for giving me the honour of calling you my bride.
I love you.
