A Happy Event

I love weddings. Good weddings where the bride and groom are overflowing with love and with Jesus.

This past weekend a couple in our Sunday School class, Dave and Yolanda got married. His first, her second. We met them about a year ago, and back then they were just checking out the whole Christian marriage thing.

Yolanda was severely hurt and betrayed by her first husband. She was understandably reluctant about getting married again.

Dave, after being raised in the church, spent years "enjoying" the life of a bachelor and had a preteen daughter to show for it.

This is a gorgeous couple, that's obvious. But the best part about their story is where Christ has brought them from. There was a time Dave would barely speak in Sunday School class. And now, during his vows he was a "mini-Danny" promising to lay down his life for his new bride like Christ loves the church. His vows were all about Christ being the center and the source.

Danny and I cried.

And I remember when Yolanda during one of our classes last year said that she was not "comfortable and didn't like the idea of submission and the man being head of the household." I also remember the day seeing the light bulb go on when she understood the biblical concept and embraced it as the protection and blessing it was intended.

Her vows? Her vows were all about coming beside Dave to support him, and walking behind him when he leads. She was a bride who understood the safest and most blessed place to be was in the arms of a man who understood the magnitude of his responsibilities to honor Christ first as a husband.

Danny and I cried.

We love this couple. This is a couple we have pursued and come along side. Separately Danny and I have encouraged them. We were honored and humbled when they asked us to be one of the couples that would participate in the Bouquet of Love segment of the ceremony. Several months ago when they approached us, they said "Because we respect your marriage and the way you love each other, you have been an example for us." We, along with about 4 other couples, surrounded Dave and Yolanda as a physical reminder that we were all committed to them in prayer and their marriage. That's what its all about.

We are so happy for them. We are so blessed to see how Christ, in his timing has transformed these individuals and this couple. We were so blessed to witness all the love and all the ways they chose to honor Christ on their special day.

I love weddings. Good weddings where the bride and groom are overflowing with love and with Jesus.

I wish I could marry Danny all over again!