I'm getting married in two-and-half months. Friday, March 31, 2017, Jacob (as he likes to go by now) surprised me during my lunch break at school and proposed. I answered "Absolutely!" to his question, "Will you marry me?"
I've always struggled to not wish a time away and engagement is another one of those times to learn to appreciate what God has given me now. The learning and growth which has happened over these past months of engagement, I would never wish away. Through our premarital counseling sessions, God brought to the forefront many things we needed to discuss and communicate about. Over the past month, we have had the opportunity to live in the same city, and it has been marvelous to no longer be long distance.
Time always continues to march on. It waits for no man. Though I look forward to joining my life with Jacob before God, family, and friends in October, I'm glad for these final days of singleness. These moments of quiet reflection and thinking before the next chapter on my life opens. God may call be back to the life of singleness in the future, but for now, that chapter of my life is closing.
During the engagement time, I have been praying for our relationship and marriage. I thank God for the man He has brought into my life, and I pray Jacob and I can honor God with our marriage. I pray we will be an example of Christ's love, mercy, and graciousness to one another, and thereby a testimony of God to those who are around us. I pray God will always be the foundation of every part of our life; the center and core of every decision, action, and word. I pray we will honestly, graciously, and lovingly communicate as we become a family. If God chooses to bless us with children, I pray we would model Our Father as we parent. I pray our lives and marriage will be used by God to bring those who do not know Him to Him. I pray all that God takes us through and allows us to do would honor and bless His name.
To God be the glory forever and ever.
