The Big Day is nearing. My legally married wife and I are finishing each and every tasks for our Church wedding on 17th January 2015. (It is a requirement in our Church to legally marry before the wedding)
I can't remember when we started the planning for the wedding but it is a blessed plan. From the day we have attended the Catholic Marriage Preparation Course we were always building trust and closing the gaps between us. These acts have bond us much stronger that we realised that the blessings of God are always there in our relationship.
When I informed my intention to marry to my parish priest, he gave me a guidance booklet to prepare the wedding booklet. From there, as my wife and I were going through the bible readings for the wedding service, we read the text from 1 Cor 13: 1-8. The last phrase touched both of us. At that moment we understood God's role in our relationship because He was the one that always has kept both of us together against every obstacles and pains. With much of honour, acknowledgement, praises and gratitude, we have decided to put His act on us as the wedding theme and that is "Love Never Fails" (ref: 1Cor 13: 8)
From the time we have selected the theme, we are building our life to be Christ centered. We always know that we are very much afar from achieving it but nevertheless we have decided not to forget that God shall be always the center of our marriage and family life.
During the preparation, there were many obstructions and discouragements that have led us to some dry moments but because we never stopped communicating even in an argument and therefore we were able to discover each other more and more. Whenever we are in a church, we will be sitting in front of the blessed sacrament and pray. We infact little by little have stopped asking and started giving thanks in our prayers to the Lord. We always end our prayers with one Lord's prayer, three Hail Mary and complete them with 'Glory Be'.
Trust in God more than yourselves. Nothing is greater than Him. The world will put it's conditions to give you that temporary comfort, but it will fail eventually. God never fails. His love never fails.
May the Lord bless you and give you peace. Amen.
