It’s nice to have someone to help me make decisions.
\nAgreeing with one another is not always easy.
\nWhen disagreements rise up, it can feel like storm clouds overhead.
\nI imagine you’ve been through some difficult storms.
\nI know God has led me and my husband Steve through several.
\nIt seems in the various seasons of our life a different kind of storm blows through.
\nOur deep friendship and great desire to love each other and serve God has helped us weather these\u00a0tough seasons.
\nThere are few friendships in the world like ours.
\nSteve and I\u00a0met on the ski slopes when we were in high school. I was a junior and he was a sophomore.
\nOur towns (I lived in Anaconda, MT and Steve in Philipsburg, MT) were thirty miles apart with the Discovery Basin Ski\u00a0Resort tucked in between.
\nIn our younger years, we skied together almost every weekend.
\nI have a box of letters we wrote to each other through the years as our friendship developed.
\nWe ended up at the same college (Go GRIZ!) and Steve let me cry on his shoulder many times as I tried to find my way in relationships.
\nHe was my BFF. (Best Friend Forever)
\nWe went our separate ways after college but we kept in touch with letters and phone calls.
\nI moved to Dallas, TX to start over after a very difficult storm shook my foundation.
\nAbout six months later Steve was hired for a company in Las Colinas, TX\u00a0and\u00a0moved only a mile from my apartment.
\nWe had a blast together exploring the big city and our friendship blossomed to love.
\nWe were married a year later and now we have two wonderful sons and a daughter-in law.
\nWe celebrate our twenty-sixth wedding anniversary this summer.
\nThere is great power when two people together on the same path\u00a0use God as the guide.
\nBut what has made\u00a0us strong is that God is the Divine third person in our relationship.
\nIt is with His power that it all works out for good. It isn’t always easy, but God is our shelter in the storm.<\/p>\n