Just Another Fish in the Sea

He didn’t marry an excellent wife. She was awkward in stature and build, and a little bit quirky in social settings. She was young, some would say too young to wear that band of gold.

She was a stranger to the kitchen, unable to execute even a frozen pizza. Their home was unadorned and plain, despite her efforts to “dress it up” with thrift store finds, bought from their meager budget.

We stumbled a bit through our first year of marriage.

Back on that day when it all began, as my heart pounded hard and steady– arm linked in my father’s–as I  walked down that aisle, I was not the “Excellent Wife” who is “hard to find”, spoken of in Proverbs 31.