One Year

Erick surprised me with a weekend away for our first anniversary. Unbeknownst to me, he had already packed my bags (with all details down to the very last toiletry necessity) and cancelled all weekend events I had made for us by the time he picked me up from work two Fridays ago. My sweet husband whisked me away one weekend early to Springfield, Kentucky, where we spent a night at the lovely Maple Hill Manor bed and breakfast and played with alpacas, picked apples, and watched the sun set over deep green hills.

Needless to say, it was the perfect way to celebrate our one year landmark. The next weekend we visited a new cafe we discovered and spent the quiet afternoon reflecting on the Lord's goodness to us and all the things we learned and desire to grow in for our marriage. The reflection will continue, we concluded, as we want to constantly be thinking about what the Lord is/has been showing us, but we are thankful for this one year mark to pause and intentionally praise Him for His faithfulness in our life together. What an adventure it has been! A year marked with joy, challenge, forgiveness, grace and dependence on the Lord as we are continually being knit together as one.

My week in Taiwan: Meeting Austin, Evelyn and Audrey

I had the treat of visiting Taiwan last month to celebrate my grandmother's 80th birthday with her and visit my extended family. In addition to getting to celebrate such a significant birthday with my grandmother, see family I haven't seen since our wedding, and be in a country so dear to my heart, my trip to Taiwan was also the first time I got to meet my new nieces and nephew! Here are some sweet moments of each of them with their new parents :)

It was amazing to see how much life buzzes throughout my grandmother's house with the three babies there now (two of my cousins and their families live with my grandmother) and such a joy to see my grandmother turn 80 with such vibrancy and activity surrounding her. One afternoon I witnessed her making silly faces and doing an airplane dance for one of her great grandchildren to try to get him to eat. I can't remember the last time I saw so much life in her :) My mother used to worry about her getting lonely during the day while everyone was out at work. Now that these little cuties are around, I think she'll have her hands full! It feels like she's turning younger and younger, not older! Praise God for such joys :)

A little walk before dinner

July 28, 2012

Erick Loh, I, Amy Lin, give myself to you as your earthly wife. I promise to love you and to cherish you, to respect you and follow you as the leader of our family, to be first abiding deeply in the Lord and placing my ultimate trust in Him as we walk together in marriage. I promise to support you and encourage you in the way that honors the Lord and serves you, as we testify together to the Gospel of the grace of God.  I promise to put you before me, to pray for you, to trust you as you listen and lead us in the paths the Lord has prepared for us. I promise that I will be yours until death parts us or our Lord comes again.  I promise these things before God and our family and friends, for His glory to be manifested in our marriage, as a picture of Christ and the church.

Photo Credit: Akemi Furuyama

A beautiful day

The Lord is so good to us! On this day I was blessed at the realization that God is bringing two families slowly together in the most beautiful way. I saw it in the way our grandmothers held hands and shared stories of God's work in their lives, exuding joy that can only come from Jesus. It is by His grace that Erick and I stand with two Proverbs 31 women we greatly admire and that we call grandmother.