In One Month

As I sit at the computer sipping coffee this morning, I can see a beautiful world just out the window. The sun has already been up for hours and is casting a warm glow on the land. All of this cheer out of doors matches the joy in my soul. In exactly one month from today, I will marry my one true love. It is amazing how our journey has progressed.

We met in February of 2016.
We started communicating November of 2016.
We began courting January, 1, 2017.
Jeff proposed to me on May 13th, 2017.

And at last..... we'll be married on July 15th, 2017.

I am feeling very blessed to have Jeff in my life and am looking forward to be his one and only helpmeet, wife and best friend in life. It amazes me that people take so long to develop relationships. By the time Jeff and I were able to visit in person in December we'd already talked about so many of the essential things of life, that he told me he wanted me marry me. So there was never any question of his intentions which made our entire relationship direction and focus. I can't imagine how things would have gone if we'd hung out in a limbo state of "getting to know each other" for months and months. When Jeff did propose it was more of a surprise because I figured he might skip that step since we were already planning to be married. It's been such a freeing relationship. We've both been around long enough to know that no relationship is ever perfect but we have the Lord on our side and we get to be heirs together in the grace of life. That is enough to get us through any hardships and more than enough to cause our joys to abound.

One month. It'll fly by. I will enjoy these few days I still have to write my maiden name. I am relishing the nights I spend in my single bed surrounded by the bedroom walls of my days of longing and youth. I've had a good run of singleness and although I can't say I liked every minute of it, I learned to be content and find pleasure in the things I had and the place where I was at in life. One of the verses I had written on my bedroom wall was Psalm 27:14, "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord." I think it was that verse that brought me through to this day. It was that verse that gave me strength to save my heart for Jeff. I know that verse will continue to guide me in my relationship with Jeff by instilling me with patience. 
  
I thank my Heavenly Father for this season in my life where I close one chapter and open another. Christ has the power to work His will in me... and I have the pleasure to understand Christ's love for the church, through this institution of marriage. 
I am feeling very blessed. 

Ephesians 3:14-21
"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen."