Well, I just spent the weekend in Washington.
Stephen and Elizabeth got married yesterday. Wow. A beautiful ceremony, but the preceding stress makes me wonder if it’s worth it… Yeah, of course. We stayed up until 4am decorating the the church and preparing for the wedding in the afternoon. Steve and I were staying with a good friend and got three hours of sleep. Then It was time to go to the church and get ready. Then the groomsmen calmed Steve while he was waiting to see Liz. It was worth the wait...
... and the ceremony was awesome! I was standing there, watching their faces and the side glances and the joy beaming from their faces and I was so happy for them. When the unity candle was lit, and they were standing there listening to a song, I saw some tears. It was touching. Then they were pronounced man and wife and walked out to the receiving line. I was part of that line.
That was fun, ‘cause I got to shake hands. I felt like someone of importance! And it was interesting to see reactions when I told people that I met both of them on the internet.
The reception was full of people and good food. I got to toast them and said something to the effect of “Glad to have been a part of your lives through the first Instant Messaging, the Mexico missions trip, and everything else. May God bless you with a very long marriage!” It was great. After all the official cutting the cake – with a dagger – and throwing the bouquet (steve’s youngest sister, 10, caught it) and the garter (the single men didn’t even try to catch it and this little boy got it!) I changed and left. They were still helping clean up, but I think they left soon after I did.
Then I drove around for a few hours. It was a lot of fun and I think it relaxed me. I went back to the friend's apartment and built that friendship up more.
This morning I went to New Life Center for Church. Since it's Mother's Day, they did a special reading of the book "I'll Love You Forever" and wow, I teared up. The sermon was good and then I went and sat waiting for Nate to get done praying for people. Didn't get to talk much, but enough to find out that I am definitely interning up there. Very cool! Now to work out all the details of what I'll be doing and where I'll be living and all of that. I'm excited!
Traveling today I was just wanting to get home and it took forever... I'm going to go to bed immediately when I get to my room after work...
Stephen and Elizabeth got married yesterday. Wow. A beautiful ceremony, but the preceding stress makes me wonder if it’s worth it… Yeah, of course. We stayed up until 4am decorating the the church and preparing for the wedding in the afternoon. Steve and I were staying with a good friend and got three hours of sleep. Then It was time to go to the church and get ready. Then the groomsmen calmed Steve while he was waiting to see Liz. It was worth the wait...
... and the ceremony was awesome! I was standing there, watching their faces and the side glances and the joy beaming from their faces and I was so happy for them. When the unity candle was lit, and they were standing there listening to a song, I saw some tears. It was touching. Then they were pronounced man and wife and walked out to the receiving line. I was part of that line.
That was fun, ‘cause I got to shake hands. I felt like someone of importance! And it was interesting to see reactions when I told people that I met both of them on the internet.
The reception was full of people and good food. I got to toast them and said something to the effect of “Glad to have been a part of your lives through the first Instant Messaging, the Mexico missions trip, and everything else. May God bless you with a very long marriage!” It was great. After all the official cutting the cake – with a dagger – and throwing the bouquet (steve’s youngest sister, 10, caught it) and the garter (the single men didn’t even try to catch it and this little boy got it!) I changed and left. They were still helping clean up, but I think they left soon after I did.
Then I drove around for a few hours. It was a lot of fun and I think it relaxed me. I went back to the friend's apartment and built that friendship up more.
This morning I went to New Life Center for Church. Since it's Mother's Day, they did a special reading of the book "I'll Love You Forever" and wow, I teared up. The sermon was good and then I went and sat waiting for Nate to get done praying for people. Didn't get to talk much, but enough to find out that I am definitely interning up there. Very cool! Now to work out all the details of what I'll be doing and where I'll be living and all of that. I'm excited!
Traveling today I was just wanting to get home and it took forever... I'm going to go to bed immediately when I get to my room after work...
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