So my baby brother Paul is all grown up and married. He had a super wedding up in Johnstown, PA. I got to hang out with his wife, Nicole's sisters, who are just as fun and great as she is. He has really chosen well! There is just something about weddings that is awesome. Two people coming together to make promises with God to each other. I love it!
This was a first for us, our kids were at the wedding. Alyssa was the flower girl and did a superb job, which is good because with a 4 year old, there is a bit of risk involved, you never know what they might do. She was angelic. Patrick actually fell asleep on the pew! That was great, he couldn't have been more well-behaved. Although, I was a bit worried looking across the aisle at him asleep, he never does that! Of course I thought something had to be wrong. No, he was just wiped out. They had an awesome time dancing at the reception and eating from the cookie table. Which for the first time in Alyssa's life did she admit to eating too many cookies, "Mommy, my tummy hurts, I think I ate too many cookies." Wow!
As for Paul and Nicole, I am so happy for them. In each other they have found such love. They go together so well. It is so nice to see my brother so happy and having so much fun. At their wedding I prayed that their marriage be blessed by, "love, faith, perseverance, forgiveness, mercy, babies, and laughter" for the invocation.
"Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." Colossians 3:12-17
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails." 1 Corinthians 13: 1-8.
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