What a Day!

Yesterday was an absolutely beautiful day! It was a very busy day for Ed and I, but we enjoyed every bit of Tyler and Lauren's wedding. Ed did a great job for his first wedding. He was very relaxed and brought so much truth into their wedding. He said it was really cool to just stand up there with the two of them and share that intimate time with them during the ceremony. As a pastor you get a front row view of the ceremony, but even more so, you get to lead them through their first moments of marriage. Ed challenged them to start their marriage off right like the first button when buttoning your shirt. If you get the first button wrong, the rest of the shirt is messed up. So in marriage we need to get the "first button" right and everything will line up correctly. So he said the first thing was that the quality of your marriage hinges on what you believe to be true about God. Then he shared four things that are true about God that have to be true for marriage to work. They were that God is LOVE, God is FAITHFUL, God is WORTH every minute of this Marriage, and God is GRACIOUS.
It was an absolutely beautiful wedding. Ed would never say this, but I can because I am his wife. He did a really great job. He made the ceremony personal, comfortable with light humor, and a commissioning to their lives together and their lives as missionaries. It was a worship service. There were many wet eyes and people who do not know the Lord were awakened to Him. Ed received many many complements and people were surprised it was his first wedding. The best was when several couples in their 40s and 50s said they wished Ed could do their wedding!
Tyler and Lauren are so special to so many people. It was neat to see a lot of the youth there that Tyler had worked with. Those guys love him! They truly are a neat couple and my prayer is that the Lord would protect their marriage and bless them with many many years of happiness. May the Lord give them the grace they need to love each and every day!