Jamie and her roommates needed help moving a couch so her roommate, Rebecca, asked some of her Impact counselors who were in town over the summer to help. While there, one of the roommates asked me if I could move a mini fridge for her. Neither she or I knew that we were talking to our future spouse.

After a completely platonic date party, day at the gun range, a Mike Pence speech, and multiple failed attempts to get her to go dancing at Hurricane Harrys I could no longer resist and asked her out. Even though I made a fool of myself, stumbling over my words, and falling over a kitchen island that was not secured to the ground, she said yes.

October 19th, 2022 we told each other we loved the other, in January we began to discuss what marriage would look like, and in April I had purchased a ring. Jamie figured out my first proposal plan, but May 14th, Mother's day, I took her on a "birthday dinner" with a birthday gift and all. However, it was clear I was on edge as I tried cutting my steak with the blunt side of my knife multiple times.

When dinner ended I said I had forgotten to get my mom a gift and needed to go to the store and get her a candle (classic). She began to catch on as we passed one store after another. When we arrived at the location I asked her if she would take a walk with me. We walked to a Gazebo where I had my sister set up some decorations and I got down on my knee. I do not remember a word I said just that I struggled to free the ring from my handkerchief. She said yes and I put the ring on her hand. It was the happiest moment of my life.

In Genesis God made woman from man, and for man, that he might not be alone. The woman was to be a partner to the man and they would be as one in the eyes of the Lord. Marriage is a holy partnership between man and woman. Paul writes in Ephesians 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so the he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.

The man bears a great burden of leading and loving his wife in marriage, while the wife is also task to respect and honor her husband in that they must represent the Church to each other. As they pursue Christ and one another, they show their neighbors, relatives, and children what it means to have a relationship with Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit and God the Father.