August 9, 2009

• Our 25th Anniversary and a SURPRISE!

  I decided that tonight, instead of reading other blogs, I would post a few pictures on my own. Lately, I’ve been tuckered out in the evenings. For the past 3 weeks I’ve watched two of my younger grandchildren fulltime. The time with them has been so sweet but my.. oh my… was I worn out at the end of the day. I was doing well to just keep up the essentials in my home. I kept wondering if I was this tired years ago when raising my own children.  Me thinks me is getting OLD!!
  
  I wanted to share a few pictures of a very special day back in April when my husband asked me to marry him … again ….for our 25th anniversary. 

  After the Sunday sermon my husband went up to the front of the church and asked pastor if he could say something…  then he walked down the isle to where I was sitting and kneeled down in front of me while taking my hand…
  
  
  
  (I’m thinking to myself.. what is he doing??????)
  
  Then he said … “Georgene… now that you’ve known me all these years would you still marry me again if you could?”.  (Kevin said that he started getting nervous because I took way too long to answer but all I could think of is ‘what is he doing?’  )  I said.. ‘yeeesssss’!  He then said.. ‘now’?  Ah.. everything started to make sense! From my children being there (I was told they were attending the marriage seminar) to my pastor being all gussied up in a suit to the flower girls throwing rose pedals down the middle isle. Everyone knew except me! What fun!
  
  He took me by the hand and led me up the middle isle to the front of the church. After pastor greeted us we watched a video Kevin had made of pictures from the time we were first married and then throughout our marriage. ( I caught my girls off-guard one day at my home. They said they came to take me to lunch. Later I found out they were collecting pictures for the video. Sneaky girls!).

  Then Pastor performed the marriage ceremony!
  
  
  
   Pastor spoke such encouraging words. I wish I had them on paper so I could read them again.

  

  “Now you may kiss the bride!”
  
  After the ceremony we took a family picture.
  
  
  
  
  Afterwards we met our church family in the dining room for a wonderful lunch and a beautiful anniversary cake. We were so blessed to share this special day with our own family and our church family, too.

  How blessed to think of all the planning and effort my husband put into making our 25th anniversary one I would never forget. It was better than the first ceremony (we were married at The Love Chapel… use your imagination! ). 

   God has done some amazing things in our marriage the past 25 years. The power of His Living Word  to change a person’s life (and marriage) into something that will bring Him glory never ceases to amaze and astonish me.  He is still teaching us so much about what it means to prefer each other over our own wishes and to die to ourselves.  I’m still learning new lessons in submission even after all these years of marriage and my husband is still learning what it means to be the head of our home (although I think he does a FINE job already!).   I never will ‘arrive’ in this lifetime because around each new turn of our marriage there are new seasons of life with their own unique challenges.

  I’ve been so wonderfully blessed with a caring family who out did themselves to bless us on our special day and a church family that has always gone above and beyond to bless it’s members!

  Thank you, Lord, for each one!

  Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,  so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,  that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;  for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,  because we are members of His body.  FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.  This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.  Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
  Ephesians 5:22-33

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