I was reading a status message a while back on Facebook and someone asked What is the most vivid memory of your wedding? WOW, did that get me thinking. My wife and I have a very strong marriage but sometimes we forget to look back to see how far we have really come together and how much fun we have had on this journey.
Great memories is what we have together. I actually had 4 thoughts of our wedding day that come to mind. Crazy things always happens to us.
1) Our wedding song choice that we picked, we didn’t realize how long it was until it was playing and we were just standing there at the alter. It seemed like an eternity at the time. After the wedding we both talked about that and laughed.
2) They had us light individual candles so that we both together can light the unity candle. After we blew out our individual candles we noticed that we didn’t turn away from the Unity Candle so we blew out our Unity Candle. We didn’t realize it until we watched the wedding video back.
3) Watching the video back we also noticed that my mom took my wife’s long dress train and wrapped it around her body and was dancing with it. This was happening as the pictures were being taking. We didn’t even see that until the video. It was the funniest thing.
4) Our preacher at our wedding gets paid by what you feel led to give him. Well when I went to give him the envelope he turned it down because he was touched by our personal vows. I asked one of the other people there about that and they told us that in all the years they have been there, they have never seen him do that. We know that God touched him that day!
Since I have seen that status update, my wife and I have been looking at some of the different anniversary gifts that we have given each other and read them together. All I can say is WOW. What a great time together we have had. I love my wife and the life we have together. I could not ask for a better partner to share the journey with and now that after almost 11 years and we have a 20 month old, I am so looking forward to many more years together! Its going to be a fun and exciting journey as a family.
I learned something very valuable, even though you may have a strong marriage, you still have to keep your marriage in front of you so you can grow together. If you aren’t doing that very often then you will go backwards because in life there is no stagnation. There is only growing or dying. Which one are you?
I hope that you have in your marriage or relationship what we have. I can honestly say that I am more in love with my wife today than the day we married. This is after almost 11 years together. I pray to God that you can say that too because this is an awesome gift from God we have. Don’t take your spouse for granted!
Be Inspired or Be Left Behind!
Chris Benton