because motives matter
This year Katie's birthday post includes a surprise gathering, a long marriage, and a poem about boundary stones and covenant love. Sometimes a birthday is less about getting older and more about noticing the ground you’ve been given to stand on.
Over 20 years ago we discovered that tea made us slow down, and that’s what we need. The whole process— measuring and filtering and waiting— is a metaphor for the intentionality of marriage itself.
Let my grateful heart esteem you, my companion, faithful friend;
In ten years we will be in our 80s, and you will still be just beginning your journey. But as we have breathe, we will commend you to a God who loves you more and knows you better than we do.
We are just warming up for the challenges of aging. But for the time being, we face them together, one flesh bound by covenant, experiencing moments of deep joy and deepening faith.
the daysman 