The pieces of our puzzle

As Joel and I have ventured into an exciting stage of our life, that being the blessing of building our first house, we've found ourselves in a place of awe and excitement of how great our God is. Building a house is stressful and tiring and overwhelming and exhausting and exciting, and thrilling and not to mentioned stressful, o.k. I already mentioned stressful but I needed to re-emphasis ....and we're only on step one haha, oh boy. Anyways, back to our great God. When I met Joel he was a student, maybe not what you would picture a student to be but a student, he was a part of a program called Outdoor leadership, and while I was sitting in a traditional classroom his classroom was scaling a mountain, kyaking, guiding and a lot of other crazy stuff. I'm not much of an adventurous sort but I loved this about him, even before I realized I love this about him. I was calm and collected, didn't like to stick out, not overly out going but still confident. To most everyone, including myself, we were polar opposites, but there was still something or rather someone who brought us together. Joel brought me to the clouds and I brought him back to earth, we were pretty different but we also balanced each other. It's been a struggle finding things we both love to do but there are a few, and all that really matters to us is that we get to do things together so the fact that we don't have that much in common in the way of hobbies feels pretty insignificant as far as things go.

It amazes me how God creates 2 people so unique and so different and some how they are still perfect for each other. I'm not saying life is perfect or that circumstnces are perfect , but I am saying that there is undoubtibly some one who knows what they are doing and we have been given choices that allow His perfect creation to produce something beautiful. Joel and I work really hard for our marriage and our relationship, we were told from the very beginning that it wouldn't be easy but it would be worth it.....and it is definetly worth it. Time is put aside to spend time with each other, conversations are had to keep us on the same page, encouragment is given to help the other person to become all that they can be, praise and thanks is given to remind us not to take advantage of each other, and a love is given because it was given to us. As Joel and I work to build a house that we will than make our home we've realized how our puzzle fits together, I love to decorate and he loves to build thing, I love to cook and he loves to eat, he wants to venture into the wilderness and I want to make sure we have the map and GPS, these are the some of the pieces of our puzzle, individually they don't always make sense, but everytime we find two that match we get closer to seeing the beautiful picture our creator painted for us, and for this I feel blessed and in complete awe.