Week 16 of 52 - A Charge to Remember

Went to a beautiful wedding on Saturday, then on Sunday, our praise team sang a song that was played at our wedding – Amazing Love.  I couldn’t help but reflect on how our wedding was just the beginning of our journey:

• Two beautiful children despite the odds
• God welcoming three beautiful women into His presence… W’s mom, Sandra Danielly, and Cheri Rutland. If not for their prayers over W, would our paths have ever crossed?
• Vacations and holidays and family
• Arguments that brought tears… and more importantly, laughter once we learned we’d better get over ourselves and find the humor!
• A beloved, mostly Australian cattle dog – rescued, loved, and left our lives.
• Unemployment, underemployment, and new jobs
• Family members suffering and surviving life-threatening illnesses
• More laughter at ourselves
• Recognizing more and more that apart from Him, we are nothing.

On our wedding day, W's brother-in-law read a charge given by W's father and he included these verses.  He did not know we had chosen the same verses for our wedding program:

So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.  

Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.  Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body and be thankful.  Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.  
Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.  Colossians 3: 12-17

It's a charge we will strive toward all the days of our lives, coming up short time and again, relishing in the forgiveness that is promised, picking ourselves back up, and being thankful we do not walk alone.


Speaking of love, I discovered a new one this weekend - macro. 

And for anyone who is still reading, I've clarified a comment I made last week about G's photo, here it is.