Two years ago I wrote down the qualities I wanted in a man. I wrote these things at a time when I really felt like I would never meet someone that would ever meet up to those qualities and standards. I felt this way not because my standards were so lofty or unachievable, but because in today's society with the generation I was born into, men like the one I described are equivalent to unicorns. So here are the things I wrote:

"I want a man that I can fall in love with all over again at the end of every day. A man that loves God more than he could ever love me. A man that never loses sight of what made him crazy over me in the beginning. A man that I can be my silly, crazy, playful self around. A man that can think for himself and doesn't feel like he has to please everyone. A man that knows the scars I have and knows that some scars don't have to be visible to exist. A man that knows why they are there but still loves me anyways. A man that doesn't look at me and see my past but only sees the things that I have made of it. A man that knows our road won't be easy but knows it'll be worth it."

Sitting here two years later happily married and expecting a little one in July, I can say without a doubt that The Lord has blessed me with a man that is exceeding abundantly above all I could have ever asked for or imagined. I married a man that is so kind and so full of Jesus that I am blessed every day by his Christ-like love and kindness for me and for every person he meets. He is wonderful, but at the end of the day, I never forget that I have all of this only because my Sovereign and Holy God saw fit to put the two of us together and I pray that I never let my thankfulness weaken.

So I've said all of this to say, to any women or men, out there searching and praying for a future spouse and it all begins to feel impossible... just remember if I can find my unicorn, with The Lord's help you can find yours too!

"Delight yourself also in The Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart." Psalm 37:4