So... I've been wanting to make a blog for a really long time, but I never thought I had a good enough reason to. Well what better time than now! I have time off from work and am visiting home in California to plan my wedding. Yes my wedding! Its an exciting thing for girls because we dream of it since we were young. And in the midst of planning we have those moments where we're like "wow is this really happening?" "this feels soo unreal" "is this a dream?" ect. I have had all these thoughts and frustrations in my head. Frustration that comes because I have been planning for nearly a good solid month now without my fiance.
:( Unfortunately stress comes with planning a big special event. But since I've been engaged for about 6months now I didn't want to talk my friends ears off of all my planning and wedding dreams. I thought maybe I could just write them on here. :) You only get one time in your life for this moment and I want to appreciate and savor it.
I started the blog today, because today is exactly ONE YEAR from our wedding date! One year from us being married. July 1, 2012. I know some may say its a long time to be engaged, but I felt I really wanted to be ready for my marriage more than a wedding. So I started studying on marriage.
Did you know marriage is the oldest institution in the world? It predates democracies, republics and all other forms of social government. Ancient hieroglyphics and the earliest records of written history indicate that men and women have been dedicating their lives to one another for as long as they have existed. Men and women are drawn to live their lives together all over the world, generation after generation. Sure it looks different internally from place to place, and no doubt some cultures have respected it more than others. Governments have cooperated with marriage in different ways, but no matter what a government says or what societal trends occur, marriage is a commitment between a man and a woman that displays a covenantal relationship.
"Marriage is not merely cultural. It is spritual. It is divine. God thought of it, revealed it, and deemed it sacred. Marriage is his idea. We need to learn to do it his way".
-Ted & Gayle Haggard
And what is his way? First and foremost to have a relationship with him. Let him guide your every move and decision. Its allowing God to orchestrate your love life. Let him pick the person he has for you, made for you and do things his way. I know God orchestrated my love story because Jason is from Florida and Im from California and we so happened to fall in love somewhere in the middle Texas LOL! Who would've thought 2 people from across the United States would end up together??? God knew he would be good for me more than I knew what was good for myself. God is soo good. He loves us soo much. Marriage is a picture of the relationship God has with his people. US:) He is the "groom" and we are his "bride." He will never stop pursuing us, hoping that we will return his love. And knowing God's love is the only way to know REAL love.
So marriage has become a huge deal to me lately. Not that it wasn't before, but Im soo glad we didn't rush our engagement and not know what we were truly getting ourselves into. The closer you get to marrying someone reality begins to set in. Well atleast it has for me. I have a year but Im recognizing that this is important. This is for life. This is a huge commitment and I know when I make that commitment life will never be the same from that day forward.
From this day forward I pray God will prepare me to be the best wife I can be.
From this day forward I pray for our future together and our future family
and From this day forward I will never look at love and marriage the same.
