Clarity

I wrote this article for our church newsletter on my wedding day. Rather strange you may think, but God knew what he was doing. I had dreaded my wedding since the inception. Not marrying my husband, please don't make that mistake. But I hadn't wanted a big wedding and with 200 guests, ours was on the big side. I didn't want to be the center of attention. So the whole time I was planning, I wasn't enjoying any of it.

Then the morning of our wedding, June 6, 2009, I was trying to fill some time so I wouldn't be nervous and to get my July article done and to our church secretary before I left on a lengthy honeymoon and miss the deadline. So I sat down and wrote this article. In His own way, God told me that I was about to ruin my own wedding day. I could continue to dread it or embrace it. I decided, almost too late, that I needed to let loose the concerns and reservations.

I had a beautiful wedding day, escorted down the aisle by my 12-year-old twin boys. My 15-year-old daughter as my bridesmaid. And seeing Dan waiting for me at the front of the church.

God's blessings,
JJJ