There's no other name by which I am saved

Tah Dah!

Well, this is my third count it third blog of the day (I'll try not to post my next one 6 months from now)! I admit that I have been a terrible blogger since I started this but I'll give another "college try" starting with my new blog look! Looking good. Huh? Huh? We'll see how this goes, yo! Leave comments. Share your friends with me.

I'll leave you with a quote:
"You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here." -Buddy the Elf

Sunshine and Wintertime

This past weekend spent with some of the best friends a girl can have. Wassail Fest. DENTON. DENTON! Casperite Wedding. Casanova Wedding. Our tummies were full. Our hearts were warm. Our bodies were cold (Kailin).

MMMMM sooo good(and free)!

It's who we are

Texoma

Gorgeous Kailin

Tahoe girls in Texas!

Wedding bells ringing for the Casnovas

Sweet Resonation

So often do I hear the passages from Proverbs, 1 Peter, and Ephesians about marriage but with my Christian wedding attendance few and far between my chance to 'experience' them there is not often. This weekend I got a blessing to witness a wedding solely, utterly, just God's work, plans, glory. I got to hear some of these passages I metioned above about marriage. Maybe, for the first time I did not just hear them but saw them being lived out and in context and it definitely spoke so much louder for some reason. Crying during their first Lord's supper,Who does that? I'll tell you, one that sees the Gospel all over this then relationship now wedding. My heart just could not handle that abundance of love that was coming from this ceremony. Not growing up in a Christian home and my few attendance in Christian weddings I can say I have never gotten to witness to a relationship/marriage this closely in my life. Which is probably why the "marriage passages" resonated with me so strongly at this wedding. To see so much pure, love, and passion for the Lord and each other was ridiculous to me (in a good way). For a while now I've had this struggle with relationships and desire to have tangible attention from a man, the desire to be loved and wanted. I thank God for these desires, but most of the time it's really hard. To thinking about how my husband wonderfully perfect will be for me, setting my wedding date in the general season of spring, picking out colors, writing down my brides mates, sighing at the sound of another friend getting engaged and the list goes on. I've had this desire to just find my husband and just get married really because everyone and their mom is getting engaged now, because in all honesty I'm not ready. I really ready to get married according to God, and His word? When I had a boyfriend thing were we ready to get married? Seeing this example of the love for the Lord coming from the individuals and couple magnified during this day, how their love has never faded and always growing. Witnessing what a true Godly relationship/marriage looks like. No, I absolutely wasn't. Writing this blog and seeing the sin that damages my heart like pride, coveting, co-dependency...As an individual I'm honestly not even ready to date to let alone get married. But, because of that desire God has given me how does it be satisfied? In God and God alone. If He is not the first one I run to for attention, if His love does not satisfy me to where I long for this of this world over Him...why should I expect this from my soon to be husband if I'm not doing it? God, just reveals more of His standards to my heart as time goes by of what He expects from the both of us as individuals and as a couple; and let me tell you it blows my mind. I look at the wedding and say "I want that" I want what God wants by His standard not mine, for His glory not mine, nothing else. Admitting this fact of really not being ready to be married hurts but would I really be miserable for the rest of life with some jerk, I settle for or be have a marriage solely, utterly just God's work, plans and glory?