A worthy journey

Once again, I apologize for my lengthy absence from this illustrious blog!  I haven't had as much time to be introspective as I usually do, since I am in the midst of tax season AND am preparing for getting married AND just lose track of time in my advanced age of 28.6.  Anyway, here I am, so I hope there are no hard feelings.

The question most often on people's minds these days seems to be, "How's wedding planning?"  Here are some possible answers, depending on my mood or the circumstances of the day:

"It's going well! Things are coming right along!"

"It's hard to plan for something that seems so far away."

"I am learning lots of useful life skills, such as what a chiavari chair is."

"I'm enjoying it."

"We are checking things off our list right and left."

"No comment."

Overall, wedding planning is going quite well.  Jeff is a great planner, and we both have our strengths for different pieces of the puzzle which complement each other.  And wedding planning does indeed seem to often be one giant puzzle to me.  Why is everything so expensive?  How did the wedding industry become so... like an industry?  And why does everyone trying to sell you something in this industry seem so high strung?  Do we really need 12 settings of fine china on our registry?  Do these color palettes go together?  

Thankfully I know that it will all come together.  A wedding is just one day, while marriage will last much longer.  We have been preparing for this big step in other ways besides sending out save the dates and adding items to the wedding registry.  We have started premarital counseling with one of our pastors and have just wrapped up a study of Timothy Keller's outstanding book, The Meaning of Marriage.  We have been reading and discussing the book with other couples, some of them not married, some of them married.  I know I have gleaned a tremendous amount of wisdom, and just have been soaking up advice.  Last, but 900% not least, we have been spending time praying and reading the Word.

Probably nothing can really prepare us for what's next, but at least we both have Jesus!  The wedding day is not an end point that we are trying to survive until, but just the very beginning of a worthy journey toward our final day when our glory selves are revealed before the throne of Christ.