Tim Howe

“paused to wonder what I would say if I could send a message back through time to my skinny twenty-two-year-old self. What would I say to him about love and marriage? I realized I would tell him to thank God for his ruined honeymoon. I would tell him he doesn’t know a thing, yet, about love or marriage. I would tell him that nobody’s wedding goes perfectly, and that every honeymoon has some hitches. And I’d tell him that’s a good thing because life isn’t lived in the abstract ideals of one’s own script but is lived instead in the sort of unity that comes through trials and struggles and cross-bearing, together. I would tell him the little turbulences he was facing then would pale in comparison to the trials they would face later on. I would tell him to stop being so ridiculously uptight and entitled and thank God for showing such goodness to him, with a wife like this, with a life like this.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home