Family weddings....

Family Weddings....

I will admit I like to watch "19 and counting" on TV.  It is relaxing, clean, fun, and I don't have to wonder what will leave bad memories in my brain..plus they have been going through the first daughter getting ready for marriage and the wedding itself....I do miss working with brides, getting to know each couple, encouraging them, laughing with them, decorating with them, the nervousness, the family arriving, the awe...the whole venue....it was fun, stressful, wild, and so touching....

Now I see many of these couples with their children, their growing lives going in many directions....or not....some couples survived and others didn't...it breaks my heart to see the disintegration of those wedding vows, those families....disheartening to remember the time spent getting ready only to have it fall apart....word by word, emotion by emotion....

Four pictures from our four children's wedding stand out...just as  father Duggar stood with his daughter, teary eyed...my husband standing with each of his children, walking two daughters down the aisle... Entrusting those grooms with his treasures...and with our sons, entrusting  those grooms to their new brides...

Knowing that they are the Lord's...He will teach them, He will help them, He will mold them...we have just been a tool used in the process of their growing to adulthood....we wanted the best for each...and we got that abundantly with each new addition...like the better wine came later at Christ's hand

in the wedding at Cana in the New Testament....

How we are being prepared for our wedding with Christ...those robes, that mansion, that feast, everything in readiness....no tears...just Joy....no divorce, only eternal rightness...

Thank YOU for pictures of weddings, in our lives, in Your word...tears, laughter, joy...the best....

John 2:1-10New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

2 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”

4 “Woman,why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.

8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”

They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”

Revelation 9:6-9 "Hallelujah!
    For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
7 Let us rejoice and be glad
    and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
    and his bride has made herself ready.
8 Fine linen, bright and clean,
    was given her to wear.”

Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”