Time flies when you're having fun

This weekend Ezer and I are off to Philly to celebrate our one-year anniversary. We're going back to the city and b&b where he proposed. He's also participating in his first triathlon of the season (he's doing 3!). We thought it was appropriate since he ran the Philly marathon the morning after he popped the question. :)

We keep saying the year has gone by so quickly. I commented to a friend that perhaps like how studies show that for depressed people time seems to move more slowly, the opposite is true when you're happy. Then it wasn't until I started this blog entry that I remembered the saying in the title. Shoot, at this rate we'll be celebrating our 50th anniversary before we know it. :)

No, of course it hasn't been all easy or fun. At dinner this week we talked about how each of us felt about the occurrence of divorce among Christian couples. I feel like it's almost taboo to think divorce is wrong, even more so than abortion, and even among Christian circles. I think that divorce is understandable - why stay in a voluntary relationship if everyone is miserable. But that's it - once it's done it's not voluntary and it's not about not being miserable. I think divorce and marriage are the perfect reflection of what's wrong with us as humans. We think it's all about us when it's all about God. It's about being a reflection of his covenant with us and a reflection of the relationship between Christ and the Church. It shows the world a whole other dimension of what it means to love. Yes, you have permission to say this back to me one day if need be.

At dinner last night (see, this is why families should eat dinner together!), Ezer and I talked about wanting to remember how specifically God has blessed us so much this past year and also the importance of having hope and looking forward. Okay, I'm going to journal now to think on this further - yep, still have a paper journal, too.

Speaking of the future, future horizon work possibilities:

Wednesday I came across a grant opportunity sponsored by the U.S. Dept for Health & Human Services. It's a Healthy Marriage initiative where they're trying to encourage research on how marriages in low-income minority communities can be strengthened. Eshkol, the Barnard prof I work with, and I are going to propose doing our support workshop with this population.

There's a postdoc at UCLA that I've e-mailed a couple of times and whom Eshkol just met at an "emerging relationship reseachers" meeting. I found out that he got hired to work for e-harmony! Now would that be the perfect job for me or what? Anyway, I'm going to see if I can set up coffee with him when I'm back in L.A. (fyi - first week of August, Cali friends!).