Impending Happiness
I’m getting married tomorrow evening.
It’s quite a large thought, and it hasn’t previously been quite so. Of course it was large at the time of initiation, but it really began to loom when we were all standing on the stage at Grace tonight, rehearsing. My friends and her friends, all gathered to ring in our new life together.
That’s right. Completely new. No going back, even if perchance I wanted to.
No matter how pleasant the thought is (and it’s very), its size persists.
We’ve both made new friendships this weekend, and reestablished old ones. I’ve heard from some people that planned to come but couldn’t, some that are on their way but their flight was delayed thrice and cancelled, and some that weren’t going to come but now are.
And it’s been a blast.
Mom made the rehearsal dinner and trucked it all down from Baltimore to serve tonight: Maryland Crab Soup and — from Central PA — Chicken Corn Soup, representing both sides of my heritage thus far. I’ve been back and forth trying on tuxedos, helping to eyelet wedding programs together, discoursing late into the night with a mostly-new friend about Theology and Legalism and the like, and trying to exist while recovering from what can only be described as an intense stomach virus contracted at the beginning of the week. Nerves don’t help that sort of thing, either.
And now I’m at home, trying to put it all together on this old Dell of Jennifer’s because I left my laptop at her parents’ house. I’m preparing to start my new life, and attempting to not let family, friends, and the ceremony and it’s trappings get in the way of what’s really important, namely, my wife-to-be and our impending happiness.
Mostly it’s all going according to plan. Sure, things have cropped up here and there. But we’re hanging tight, and hanging on to each other, and to Him. Because none of it’s going to work without that.
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