Our weekends seem to be overflowing with events, date nights and fun times the last couple months. I don't know if it is the time of year or what, but we didn't have this much going on during the winter months. I am cautiously optimistic that we can turn the alarm off this Saturday and sleep 'til we decide to get up. Don't misunderstand though, I have really enjoyed the things we have been doing because we are doing it together as a family.
On Mother's Day I had the rare priviledge of taking a 2 hour nap. I did have to prepare lunch, but only because we had eaten out Friday nght and again Saturday to celebrate after Maiesha's dance recital. After my nap Tyrone and I dropped the kids off at the Ganio's home and drove up to Rogers to attend the Lecrae (Christian rap artist) concert. As we searched for a parking spot, we noticed there were not many minivans and the people walking inside were a few years younger than us. As best we can figure out, Lecrae is fairly close to our age, but the vast majority of the audience was staying up late on a school night for this concert. We did see a few parents escorting their elementary age kiddos and we commented several times that Jeremiah would have had a good time. We had a great time! We really enjoyed the atmosphere, the music, and the message Lecrae delivered through his testimony and his music.
This is the second concert Tyrone and I have gone to together. The first was Brian McKnight when we were first married. I had been to a handful of other concerts before we were married, but it was never something that Tyrone did. I really enjoyed watching his response. He is a fan of rap music, but has remained a little sceptical about the "quality" of Christian rap. I think Lecrae changed his mind! We were sad that we had to leave early to get home to the kids. For an hour and a half we were young again. It really took me back to the early years of our relationship.
Tyrone and I meet in March 1997. A month later we were officially dating and he called me "his gal".(That was a Charleston, SC term.) We dated for 3 plus years then broke up at the beginning of my 5th year of undergrad and his first year of grad school. We traveled to Arizona that Christmas/New Year's where we got engaged - while still broken up. Crazy, I know. We were married August 18, 2001 at the Mitchell House in Lexington, SC.
That day was ridiculously hot like most days are in August in South Carolina. It rained all morning and afternoon, but the rain stopped before the wedding leaving things pretty steamy for an outside wedding. I didn't really notice as I walked down the isle on my dad's arm. I was supposed to be walking to "In the Morning Light" by Yanni, but the coordinator lady misunderstood so we just played Pachabels again. After we exchanged our vows, I surprised Tyrone with a song I had prerecorded with the help of our pastor. I didn't think I could sing well and without crying at the wedding. I don't have my version on anything but a cassette tape, but here is the original.
"If You Could See What I See" by Geoff Moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmRmEKTbN4
As Tyrone wrapped his arm around my at the concert Sunday night and we hung out together at a RAP concert like a couple of kids, I couldn't help but fall a little more in love with him. I am so incredibly thankful for the journey God has taken us on. Sometimes we have been hanging on by a thread, but He is holding us together and teaching us how to love each other before ourselves and glorify Him with our time, talents and treasures more each day. And as Lecrae put it at the concert, we are not living for more of the things this world has to offer, but we are living for the Glory of God.
One of the scripture passages Pastor Jaye read in our wedding ceremony was 1 Corinthians 13:4-13. An old familiar one, but so important nonetheless. We were challenged to read it as though for the first time and allow the meaning of the words to sink deep into our souls. After all, it is the Word of God.
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
I want to experience that
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