Today is our 17th wedding anniversary. I can imagine being a better husband, but I cannot imagine having a better wife. At some point I’ll video and share the song I penned for Allyson/Us. For now, the words are below.

Update: Video Below

[v1]

Seventeen, now if you please

Has it been that long

Has it taken all that joy and

Pain to write this song

Seems like it was yesterday

You walked down the aisle

Oh such wonder, oh such beauty

Heaven in your smile

Oooooo

[v2]

The first year in the pain it tore

Our tender hearts in two

All that you held dear and holy

Was taken away from you

I thought that I could fix

The brokenness inside of you

Until I saw that all I had

Was broken pieces too

Oooooo

[v3]

After all this time it seems

That we have settled in

Learning how to love each other

Finding joy again

The circle of our love is like

The setting sun at night

After passing through the darkness

Rising with its light

Oooooo

[v4]

How I see us growing old

And deeper in this dream

All we’ve lost along the way

Is nothing it would seem

For we know our futures

They are held in the King’s hand

For now we hold each other closely

Passing through this land

Oooooo