Well, as you all know, Amber's birthday is fast approaching next week!
Yay!
I thought I'd share a few things about her that I really appreciate!
- She is an excellent photographer. You've all seen her work - I don't need to tell you this, but I really appreciate it! Our house is filled with visual reminders of the life we're building together!
- She serves God with me! We've had the opportunity to help several couples get to the mission field, served together in our church in many capacities, and seen much spiritual fruit from it. I'm very excited to see how God will use us in the future together as we step out in faith!
- She loves our kids.
- She makes our family and home her priority. From the time we were married we intentioned to focus on giving the right things priority. One of Amber's convictions was to make family a priority over a career. This is a far harder thing to do than many realize. At the time we started our family, Amber had an excellent job with tremendous future making great money. There was no economic benefit to her leaving the workforce to manage a growing family. It would have been far more "beneficial" to just pay a nanny to raise the kids and manage our home. But Amber chose otherwise and the fruits of it have shown in our kids. They are wonderful, happy, energetic children that love their parents. We stepped out in faith that this was the right move, and we were rewarded with many benefits from it, financial and otherwise that we never would have seen coming. Thank you, Amber!
- She is a candid advisor to me. I appreciate this. I'd rather have someone directly tell me when they're having trouble with my thinking than dodge a difficult conversation. She does this. Sometimes it isn't always a fun discussion, but it is profitable. She helps me see things from a different angle. What a great woman!
