08/02/2026
Yesterday, my husband and I celebrated 34 years of marriage. 🥂❤️
While anniversaries are often measured by years, I believe they're really measured by the commitment to keep choosing one another through every season.
Over the past 34 years, we've experienced moments of incredible joy, significant challenges, unexpected transitions, answered prayers, and seasons that required perseverance.
Through it all, I've learned one invaluable lesson:
One of the greatest leadership decisions we ever make isn't simply choosing a career, accepting a promotion, or launching a business. It's choosing the person who will walk beside us through every season of life.
As I reflect on my journey as a wife, mother, nurse, healthcare leader, ministry leader, speaker, and founder, I recognize that none of those accomplishments happened in isolation. Behind every degree earned, every ministry assignment accepted, every late night studying, every speaking engagement, every difficult decision, and every dream pursued was a husband who believed in me, supported me, prayed for me, encouraged me, and often sacrificed alongside me.
Marriage isn't about finding someone who makes life easy. It's about building a life together that's worth fighting for. It's choosing love, extending grace, communicating honestly, forgiving often, and continuing to grow both individually and together.
To anyone walking through a difficult season in your marriage, don't give up too quickly. Some of life's greatest blessings are found on the other side of perseverance, healing, and intentional work.
I'm deeply grateful to God for these 34 years and even more grateful that I get to do life and ministry with my best friend.
"Two are better than one... For if they fall, one will lift up his companion." — Ecclesiastes 4:9–10