I am are right where I should be

Personal.  Honest.  Original 
a way to acknowledge and thank you as personally as possible

1. challenged my 'realistic' thinking with his 'everything is possible with God' thinking
2. he wants to give me his last name
3. we create adventures together,
4. he is reserved in many ways with adults, but he gives easily of himself to children. 
5. He is compassionate and attentive and patient
6. knows my true self , and you like me because of and in spite of it. 
7. he is my biggest encourager, yet not afraid to challenge me to be better.
8. We play together, brainstorm together, create together, read together. Your hand always feels comfortable in mine.
9. joy of having a person with whom we can share our deepest thoughts and feelings
10. When we have faced  challenges,  disappointments,  uncertainty I was glad you were by my side.
11. life with you is half as hard and twice as good 
12. You have taught me slow down ,To love the skies I’m under
13. I’ve decided To do something that lasts
14. I am going;I am being; I am doing
15. Just when I’m sure that I can't bear the rain
    A tiny leaf starts pushing through the ground
    In a place where the ground was too dry to sustain it
    A new tiny flower can be found *Sara Grove lyrics Rain
16.  building
17. willing
18. surrender
19. remember
20. character
21. womb 
22. self-discovery
23. all the people I love the most gathered in one place ;generations in one house, good food and friends ;stories to tell;making each other laugh remembering when 
24. Nothing will come between me and you  
25. I was made this way • To think and to reason and to question and to pray
26. Thanks to our sovereign God Who has a good plan for us; you have been so faithful
    your goodness it follows me
27. I’m on the other side of something
28. A promise to stay while we're working it out
29. You'll gain such a strength from what is tearing you apart
30. add to the beauty
31. the love that never fails
32. If we go looking for offense
    We're going to find it
    If we go looking for real love
    We're going to find it * lyrics by Sara groves, Loving a person
33. in the voice there's a calling
34. in the man there's vision
    in the vision is a road *In the girl there is a room, Sara groves
35. your courage compels me 
36. you are wonderful
37.  a friend to the weary 
38. you are beautiful 
39.  your love is never ending

I choose to remember and i have learned

• no one can hurt you like I can
•  Generations will reap what I sow. I can pass on a curse or a blessing to those I will never know.
• always feel as if we are renewing our vows when we attend weddings 
• Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' five stages of grief: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and then acceptance. 

For wedding ceremony : to friends and family

• By your presence, you celebrate with us and  support our decision to commit ourselves to a lifelong relationship
• Marriage is a bond to be entered into only after considerable thought and reflection.

Gratitude to him

• You have watched you grow from the girl you first met and befriended into the woman that you love now
• Thank you for coming so far with me and for always seeing in me the person that I strive to be,
  even when I have stumbled along the way.
• I love you because you give me endless joys, from the big intense ones to the little silly ones
• I love you because you are patient with me, 
• Because I love you, I promise to treat you the way you want to be treated and with the respect you deserve, knowing that your thoughts, desires and feelings will sometimes be different than my own, but remembering that our strength comes from those differences. I promise to build trust with my words and actions.
  Because I love you, I will deeply appreciate all the wonderful qualities you have and not let the passage of time dull that appreciation. I promise to grow along with you, to be willing to adapt as our lives change, keeping our relationship alive and exciting.
  Because I love you, if I stumble and fail to live up to my promises, I will look you in the eyes, hold your hands, and apologize with sincerity. I promise to love you regardless of the obstacles we may face, with all I have to give and all that I am.
  Because I love you, I will be my best for you.* source
   
• Wherever our path leads us, it leads us together I am proud, from this day forward, to be called your wife
• We come before God, our chosen family and friends, to join our hands in marriage
• Dear Lord, we put our marriage into your hands  

 

• These are the hands that will work alongside yours, as you build your future together
  These are the hands that will hold you whenever illness, fear, or grief may find you.
  These are the hands that will give you strength when you need it.
  These are the hands that will tenderly hold your children
  These are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged, will still be reaching for yours * source

 

• "I'm a practical bride because I really and truly hope that our wedding won't be the happiest day of our lives...'s fine to want your wedding day to be what you dreamed it would be. But seriously, it's a party. You really want a party to be the happiest day of your life? You don't dream of bigger, better, more meaningful days? You don't have goals beyond 'get married, have wedding, wear nice dress'? We do. There are things The Boy and I want so much more than a wedding, things that we may or may not achieve, things that we yearn for with all of our hearts and if those dreams come true then that may or may not be the happiest day of our lives. But even then, I'm not willing to draw a line under our happiness and say nothing's going to beat this day, it's all down hill from here on. How sad that would be. I plan to live for quite some time, I plan to live with The Boy for quite some time and I hope with all my heart that there are bigger things on our horizons than a wedding day" nice! source
  Ring the bells that still can ring
  Forget your perfect offering. 
  There is a crack in everything,
  That's how the light gets in.Leonard Cohen

I pray my testimony will be:

• see, he's withheld no good thing
• All I have need of his hand will provide. He's always been faithful to me
• We are pressed but not crushed, perplexed but don't despair
  We are persecuted but never abandoned
• patience ,perseverance in our prayers,hope is in our hearts
• I felt His peace that passes understanding
• He has taken me higher than I have ever been
  And He's taking me higher still * Sara Groves lyrics Testimony
• a shepherd becomes a king

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