I love weddings!!! The morning of getting ready, the ceremony, the reception, the dances, all the memories made throughout the whole day! We have a wedding album that every anniversary we look at! My life really changed in 2012 and God really cemented that change on our wedding! I got to wear a beautiful dress and ring and take on a new last name and get adopted into a new family! Weddings are so sacred! The combining of two families into one through a couple!! I love everything about marriage!! I got the honor and privilege to marry my Spiritual Daughter this weekend. To see her walk down the aisle in her dress is one thing but to be the one honored enough to facilitate well there's no higher honor in my opinion!
I fumbled a bit but being my first wedding to officiate yeah it's kind of to be expected! I loved the sermon so much because it really was perfect for this particular couple!! I spent many nights and mornings on the phone with my lovely Shyanne planning and answering questions which I loved and seeing it all come together on Saturday was such a gift! This has been God all along I feel. My hubby was a wedding photo booth operator the first year of our marriage. He would leave for a wedding each Saturday! It felt a little lonely at times then I found out I was pregnant so being at home wasn't that much a problem anymore! I didn't appreciate our only vehicle being used for work though!
I was a stay at home mama for a year. Then our season hit... I got a job working in a wedding shop which I loved!! I loved celebrating a bride's dress experience I loved hearing about the wedding I loved what we had to sell! Great place to shop. unfortunately not so much a great place to work after a while! Also I found out I was pregnant in November last year so as I was leaving this position I found my way to the airport! I love the airport I'm sure you know why!! It brings me closer to my mama! One morning I was in my truck crying out to God to bring her back for Joshua!! I didn't care how he did it I just wanted to see it happen! Something about planes that make me feel she's just a plane ride away.
Now I officiate my first wedding and feel God is calling me to fight for marriage!! I love the marriage relationship! It's the first one mentioned in scripture. If God highlights that unit first, my thought is it must be of significant importance to God! 4 days into our marriage God told both Zechariah and I that we are good husband and wife! We were like "ummm 4 days in God what's your basis??" I realize now that it was to be prophecy. There's a statement you will hear us say "side by side that settles it" God gave this to us while we were in South Dakota together for a week in June 2012! We were simply meant to fight for marriage! Ours and other marriages are important to God! How cool is that!!!
I love weddings because they are such a powerful show of love! Not only did I officiate a wedding but I also discovered some healing! See I love how God brings two people together and changes their lives forever! I have to thank Shyanne as much for that as she does me! God is amazing like that! He is the master storyteller!!! Up until Saturday evening if I was to hear the song "I loved her first" by Heartland I would grieve over not getting my father daughter dance! Seeing Shyanne dance with her dad was so touching and funny!!! I was able to finally let go of that grief and focus on this beautiful memory happening in front of me!! Isn't that beautiful!! Maybe some day I will get my father daughter dance this side of eternity and if not I am ok with that! Another big praise to this wedding was a song I sworn off has resurfaced!
Weddings make you think alot! So I was thinking about my son and mother dance (I know way to early!!) and I know that Joshy and I will have "In case you didn't know" by Brett Young but wasn't super sure about mine and Nathan's dance song then I asked God and he says "What about I'll stand by you?" I at first fought this because there is a line that says "I won't let nobody hurt you." When our season hit I felt like I failed and didn't deserve to sing this song anymore! I also stopped it because of a vision I had that same week in South Dakota. I won't share it in detail because it makes me tear up. Essentially though Nathan calls out for me because he is scared and I am not there. This vision happened in 2012. I told Zechariah "I feel like it's 2 1/2 years away!!" Our season hit September 2015... I am shocked by how accurate this timeline really was!! God was preparing me for the hardest season of our lives and we weren't even married yet!!!
So as I listen the song "I'll stand by you" I hear the cry in my mama heart. I will never give up on either of my boys or my marriage! We are a family destined to be together orchestrated and perfected by God! Back in 2012 our lives changed forever and we had no idea just how much!! 5 years later I am seeing all those faithful promises he promised to fulfill in my life!! See this is why I love Jesus! When he says something it may take a while, but it's set, you can as business leaders say "take it to the bank" you can count on him delivering! This has been true over and over in my life!! Looking forward to this next adventure Jesus will have me embark on! Love being at the center of God's will!
I love you with all my heart
Tina Martina Putney
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