Hi friends, it's Celebration Week.

I'm not sure you know this, but this week has unfolded as one of the busiest weeks of the year when it comes to celebration in the Oltoff family.

Not only is the podcast turning one this week, today is my wedding anniversary to Matthew Ray Oltoff.

Not only that, but our home church to Father's House, Orange County is turning three this week.

I'm telling you, we are in for some great surprises.

In light of my anniversary and the keeping of our wedding vows for 11 years, I'm going to be

making a vow to you.

In this episode of the podcast, my dear podcast friends, I intend on keeping my vow to you in this show in the way

that I've kept my marital vows to Matthew Ray Oltoff. I promise to love and lead with full honesty.

I cherish our time together and commit to giving this episode all of my love and affection.

For richer or poor, I will create content that will instruct, guide, and inspire. In sickness and in health,

I will record content that will make us love each other more or at least commit to loving

each other even when we disagree. Do you, podcast listener, take me, Bianca Waters-Oltoff as your

podcast friend? If you agree, say, we're going there. I hope you did, because I'm saying it. We're going there. I now pronounce

us podcast friends for life. As we roll this episode, I'll admit that I had some reservations.

Here's the hard part about retrospective memories. When we look at our life in retrospect,

especially around the idea of celebration, we have a

tendency to focus on what is shiny and bright and perfect and pretty rather than what is real

and raw and in some parts of life, dull.

Marriage is a beautiful, sacred bond between two people who commit to love each other until

death do they part.

But it's the everything in between that makes marriage

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