Somewhere in South Asia...

.. a year ago.

I promise to do whatever's necessary to help you...

– To see beauty where you otherwise do not.
– To embrace sadness around us.
– To see the art of the design of the world.
– And to grow in the confusion.

I promise to encourage you...

– To embrace transformation.
–To love grace, to think in God's rhythms, to breathe in abundance.
– To... [something surely profound, cept I was nervous and giddy and shaking while writing these on a napkin in the hallway before our wedding (like a true elopement), and couldn't read my own handwriting. It was probably about her hair. I love, love, love her hair. Or maybe her laugh, or her tenacity. Roll that word around on your tongue—her ethereal tenacity. Those words don't even go together, but it's her.]
– To strive hard after that which about us is our best.
– I promise to die every day so that we may live .
— You and me, side by side, knowing that I am more alive with you as my wife. These are my sexy* vows.

*sexy** is the new solemn.
**we made mike say this.

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