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| It's 1:30am in the morning and I'm sitting in front of my computer trying to decide if I want to get this airline ticket on Orbitz. The price is absolutely phenomenal, but the times aren't the best, and I don't know how happy my bride would be if she knew that I were booking us a flight that left at 7am the morning after the wedding.
The wedding I'm referring to is that of one of my groomsmen. He's getting married on New Years' Eve in Sarasota, FL. He asked me to be a groomsman in his wedding, to which I happily agreed. However, we are running into all sorts of problems with this, as I'm also wanting to take some of my college students to an incredible conference that begins on the night of January 2nd in Nashville. Consequently, we're having to fly back ASAP on the 1st so that we can begin the drive immediately.
But I digress. I don't make these kind of decisions all that well. I guess it's my people-pleaser mentality. Most of the time I do a pretty good job of keeping it down, but in these kind of situations it often rears its ugly head. So in order to make this decision, I feel it necessary to talk to all affected parties. I even briefly considered calling friends to make sure that they would be able to take us to the airport at the times and places that our tickets called for.
So I just talked to the groom. It'll be ugly, more than likely, but he said that it would be a good idea...
...So I just booked the tickets. Props to me for being able to buy airline tickets in just under 90 minutes. | | |
| So on the left there you see me carrying my wonderful bride over the threshold. Christina and I got married on October 29 out in LA. It was absolutely incredible. For any of you who would like to see pictures, check this out - http://www.schoenfeldt.com/Christina_Christopher_web/
Those are the formal pictures. Some are pretty fun, most are your standard, run-of-the-mill wedding pics. My wife has already been through them (along with the CD of B&W's we also got sent) about four or five times a day.
Being married really has opened my eyes to the female species. Sometimes I wonder why in the world God would intend for men and women to ever be together. There are times I look at my bride and think, "What are you about right now?" Of course, in all fairness, she definitely would say that she looks at me and thinks the same thing. Men and women really are different, and I am beginning to understand the kind of commitment I made over three weeks ago. I could never do this without God's help. A buddy of mine also told me that there have been times that he's wanted to throw in the towel, but he was reminded of that commitment that he made to not only his wife, but also to God, as well as to everyone else there. We had about 200 people at our wedding, and I promised every one of them that I would love, honor, and cherish my wife. I can't take that lightly.
Not that I'm expecting this to be really hard all the time. Sure, we've already had some spats, and I'm not thinking we're done with those. But this whole being-married thing is really cool. 'Course, with someone has beautiful as Christina, being married is MUCH easier. | | |
| So we leave for LA in 12 days. It's pretty crazy. Every time I think we're pretty much done with the planning, something else seems to pop up. The bottom line is, though, October 29th will come and Christina and I will be married by the end of the day. Not that everything else is inconsequential, but it's easy to get caught up in the details, and really forget that this whole thing is supposed to be fun!
Of course, that's easier said than done. This is when it's really difficult to remember that Jesus tells me not to worry about tomorrow, for that day has enough worries of its own (Matthew 6:34). But hearing that causes me to make excuses for why I am obviously exempt from that challenge. "Jesus doesn't have to plan this wedding, I do" and then "Jesus didn't live at this time, so he couldn't possibly understand all that needs to happen that I have to worry about." You know stuff like that, which, really, if I step back and think about it, is just bogus. If I really believe that God's Word is for this time just as much as it was for back then, and if I really believe that God is here right now, then of course He gets it. So that does help a little, not as much as He wants it to, though, I'm sure.
'Course, God never did have to deal with wedding dress drama... | | |
| well, chris.....you've been xanga jacked.
ha ha ha hahahahahahhahah
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Sorry. You were signed on, so i had to.
Ha, have fun.
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-peter, danielle and jenn | | |
| I'm not really posting for any specific reason today other than it bothers me that I haven't written anything since last week. Granted, I have gone about six weeks in between some posts, but I want that sort of thing to be an exception instead of the rule. So this will probably be one of those things where I'll write until something comes to me. Once that happens, I'll either erase what I'd already written, as if that question was originally the reason I started typing today, or just add it on to an already pretty long paragraph, in the hopes that those of you who began reading at the top will continue to go through the post until you get to something to respond. It's the latter. Here's the question:
How do you know that you're loved? This is meant as more of a general question. To make it horribly impersonal - how does one know that they are loved? But, for me, everything is personal. So answer it either generally or personally. | | |
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