{"id":19178,"date":"2017-08-25T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/?p=19178"},"modified":"2017-08-25T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T04:00:53","slug":"together-for-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/together-for-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Together for Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 10 years of us. TEN! Wow, that flew by so crazy fast!<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re in the thick of a two week training in our efforts to embrace a culture outside of our heritage, I&#8217;m thankful that we get a chance today to stop and just celebrate the blessing of being together.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with a conversation about God&#8217;s work in the world and here we are running hard after His plan in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Matt, for the years of laughing, crying and singing parody songs through life together &#8211; now brought to you in a bi-lingual version. Thank you for helping me learn to be a better follower of Jesus, wife and mom. Thank you for your endless patience and the grace you extend without fanfare or even comment. Just like I prayed with you last night before we went to bed, today I&#8217;m thanking God for my best friend and the utter privilege of getting to do life together.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s had some crazy turns: 4 girls, 10 years of serving at Miamisburg FBC, seminary, 2 foster boys, 1 baby who\u00a0won the race to Jesus first,\u00a0and now here we find ourselves fighting for fluency in a foreign land&#8230; all of which because Jesus said go&#8230; and He gave us this together.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s to the\u00a0rest of our lifetime of together!<\/p>\n<p>Love you so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Happy 10 Years, Love!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-19190 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/38-finished1_2.jpg\" alt=\"38 finished1_2\" width=\"572\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 10 years of us. TEN! Wow, that flew by so crazy fast! And while we&#8217;re in the thick of a two week training in our efforts to embrace a culture outside of our heritage, I&#8217;m thankful that we get a chance today to stop and just celebrate the blessing of being together. It&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/together-for-ten\/#more-19178\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,22,9,46,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrating-life","category-joy","category-my-heart","category-my-matthew","category-thankful-and-grateful","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}