The week leading up to my wedding to Trent, I wanted to really focus on the promises I was about to make and their meaning, so I decided to journal my thoughts about my vows and the significance of the upcoming wedding… (Click here to read about Submission and Faithfulness.)
Recently, I attended a memorial of a dear old man from church. It was a joyful memorial, full of good memories and celebration. I watched his spunky, ageless wife in the front row, head bobbing up and down in agreement with the message. I was awed by her faithfulness to her husband through the years! These last few years, he had dementia and wasn’t really “himself” — but she still took care of him and loved him. What a testimony!
It brought to mind the words from our vows, “…to love and to cherish you always…”
Always.
Through raising our kids. Through seeing them go out on their own. Through finding our first gray hairs together. Through holding hands in the nursing home.
We’re together, and we’re together for life. Always, through the ups and through the downs, and all the “whatevers” in between.
It reminds me of the Lord’s words to us, “I will be with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Trent, I promise,
“…to love and cherish you always…”
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