10-22-11

Today is was our wedding day. Something so looked forward to, with great anticipation. Something that God chose to take away from us. We still don't understand why, but I know that He has a purpose. It doesn't make today any easier....there are still tears, and that one question, ''why?''. 

The weather is beautiful. It would  have been a gorgeous wedding....like I posted on FB this morning:

Pictures. Laughter. Chaos. Tears. Blessings. Nerves. Butterflies.

 All these and more. 

My favorite part of any wedding is to see the look on the grooms' face, when he sees his bride. So wonderful, magical, such love is displayed there. 

There is joy, and anticipation. Pride, and wonder. 

Even so much more our Heavenly Father, when He sees his Bride. Today I will remember, even though there has been pain and hurt, I am still precious to God, and he loves me. 

I am precious to Luke and he loves me. 

We are precious to God. 

The love of God is true Love in its purest form. 

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Romans 8:28

¹ If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

 ⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 ⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part,¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 ¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13