Amy and I went to a wedding this weekend…our friends Ramon and Rachel exchanged vows and became man and wife.
There are a million things I love about weddings, and as I get older I get more and more emotional at weddings, and here’s why…
Marriage shapes us. It shapes our character. If we jump in with both feet and submit to the “other” marriage changes us…we allow someone else to be the authority in our lives and to speak truth to us…to mirror back to us who we really are.
It is incredibly humbling and has the potential to be transformative.
I love that.
I’ve spent a lot of time talking to Ramon over the years about marriage. About why I married Amy. About why I think marriage is great and why I am “pro-marriage” (as I like to say). We argued about it. Ramon said people didn’t need to get married…it was an old-fashioned institution.
In the end though, he went for it. They are going for it. And I am excited because I can see the change already. My prayer is they stick with the process, they continue to submit to and love each other, and that they embrace the adventure. Because it is beautiful.
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