Marriage
I see in my mind's eye I see from above, a parade, going down a city street, between rows of tall buildings it goes, confetti floating down like multi-colored rain...and then I get a closer look at the person riding on the lead car...and realize with a shock, that it is me riding there! And it was like a voice was speaking to me, deep inside my heart, saying, "I've been preparing you for this day...it's been a while in the coming, but now all your dreams are to be.
Then suddenly the scene changed, and instead of city streets lined with people waving to me...I was riding in a carriage through a field full of flowers, all the blossoms were nodding in the breeze. I'd left the hard streets of discouragement; the concrete canyons full of anger and despair...for God had given me the way.
He'd shown me how to live...in Him instead of those cold lonely streets, and I'd learned so slowly and painfully that if I trusted, all my needs He would meet. All I had to do was turn just a bit, and whisper my acceptance with faith so small...but that was all He needed to hear, He gathered me up, lifted me out of the darkness and into that flower-lit field.
In the distance I saw, hardly daring to believe, the one thing I'd hoped for in my heart.... a man was standing there, his arms held out to me, and I knew with such joy that when I stepped into those arms, that from that day on we would never be apart!
How could this be I wondered, I didn't deserve it, was all this happiness really for me? "It's a gift" God seemed to whisper, "for love cannot be earned, it is freely given if it is really true...it just has to be received - that's your part...a second chance at love - just for you"
Every morning and every night, I give my thanks to God above, for giving me such happiness and joy...for the love that fills my heart to the brim.... and every day I have a thousand ways to share that love, to give you my heart all over again. It's like living in that field full of flowers.... the breeze gently blowing through that place, and each day I gather a new bouquet of love, flowers filled with hope and joy and delight, and give them to you, for in this love I know I am complete.
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Trish, beautiful! You two are really blessed.
Trish, I am so glad we serve a God of second chances in all areas of our lives. Love and joy to you Rita
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