Time has been moving like a freight train and yet at times seems as if it has stopped completely. I just realized I have not posted since Tim and I got engaged on September 23, 2010! oops :) Since that lovely day, many many plans have been made, many changes, and many blessings.
Our wedding day is in 19 days. Did I just say that? MY wedding? Aren't those events that you go to for other people? Honestly it still really hasn't sunk in that I am getting married so soon. Something that I have been waiting for, well, for a long time is actually going to happen (Lord willing, of course) in.nineteen.days. Part of me wants to flash back to 1989 when my biggest worry was what to wear to school the next day, when Mom and Dad made all the decisions and when things just happened and I didn't know how (like bills got paid, dinner was on the table, and I magically had new clothes every fall). Sometimes I miss those times. I miss having dinner around the kitchen table with all of my siblings, piling into the family van to go to church or school. I miss washing the dishes, just Mom and me. Or hearing my brothers playing video games in the next room, or the creak the floor would make in my childhood bedroom in just a certain spot. Just little things that probably weren't so thrilling then, but are forever engrained into my memory. I have lived on my own since I was 22 (after college graduation), so for 7 years. I have enjoyed it so much. I have learned so much. I am a totally different person than I was when I was 22, (or even 25 for that matter). But it went so fast. I'm sure my first 7 years of being married to Tim will fly by. I'm sure we will make tons of new memories and learn together how to do this marriage thing. I love Tim and I cannot wait to officially start our life together, but I do cherish the time the Lord has given me to just be me. I know I wouldn't be the person that Tim fell in love with if I hadn't had that time.
This song by Dave Barnes captures exactly how I feel about getting married. I thank the Lord for giving me such a wonderful man and allowing us a life together. I hope we will always thank Him for whatever comes in our life together. What's done and what comes, amen.
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