Anniversaries....

Recently I celebrated two anniversaries.
I am pleased to announce Eric and I have been married 16 years!!!
I love him dearly and am so blessed to have such an incredible husband.
Such a feat is either a lesson in miracles or sheer stubbornness, or perhaps a combination of the two.
I love to read and research. Unfortunately, much of the research I come across nowadays includes a section on divorce rate statistics for varying situations. Illness, moves, job loss, natural disasters, having a child with a disability, a spouse with cancer (especially if it is the wife who is sick), and the list goes on.
Basically there has been a 273% chance that we should have gotten a divorce. On the surface, that's not a pretty number.
However, it makes the victories in our marriage that much sweeter.
The other 'anniversary' is that of my cancer diagnosis. I spent our 13th wedding anniversary in the emergency room. Hearing that I had a large mass in my abdomen was not what I had hoped for that year, but what a tremendous gift that was. A gift of early detection. A gift of amazing Christian surgeons. A gift of having recently moved to the exact state with the exact specialty cancer hospital I needed. A gift of a shift in priorities. A gift of a new life really.
Praising the Lord for His amazing grace and mercy and His love and attention to each one of us.
Extremely humbling. Tremendously sobering.
I love my life! I'm so thankful for my anniversaries!
What are you thankful for today?