10/15/2026
21 years. Today. 21 years she has stood beside me through an endless flow of my entrepreneurial ideas, the endless and manic pursuit of those ideas, my great failures and great successes, she has lived in a single wide trailer in a floodplain that flooded every winter, and she has lived with me on mountain tops. She has gone to church with me in a cargo van full of dewalt tools and exhaust flowing in the rust holes in the back, and she’s toured the San Diego coast in a rented Rolls with me. She has pushed me in a wheelchair when my back was broken, and run 5ks with me. She has buried a son with me, and also raised 3 amazing children with me. She has built a church with me, cooked meals for that church for 5 and a half years every week, and been my rock through every up and down. This woman is beautiful, but what I see in her far exceeds her beauty alone, wonderful as that is…it’s history that could never be compared, love that could never be rivaled, and a commitment in my heart that can never be unraveled. Sarah Marie, you are still the girl of my dreams, and will ever be so, but you are also the woman Scripture described when it was written, “Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.””
Proverbs 31:28-29 ESV
Happy Anniversary. I love you!!!