I have been working on another post these past few days but wanted to put that on hold for a moment to share this video with you all. It especially hit home as an engaged woman preparing for life that is bound to be full love, triumphs, struggles, and hopes. A life that God designed not as a means to promote myself but glorify Him. As I now look to share that life with Graym, I can only pray that we will praise and honor our Lord through the actions of our marriage, that we will be so satisfied in who He is that nothing we face can shatter our joy in Him. I hope that if Graym and I ever find ourselves in a similar situation that we will be faithful to the vows we've shared and love one another through what would most certainly feel like a tragedy in the moment. But isn't it amazing how something that can feel like the end of our world can reap blessings beyond belief? That seems to hold true for Ian and Larissa, the couple I want to share with you. You can feel the love and joy they have for one another and Christ through this video and I hope you are as blessed as I was watching it.
To share just how God used this video in my own life, I wanted to give you a small glimpse in to the past couple of days. Graym and I had our usual bedtime chat on Monday but it didn't end as well as usual. We were discussing something about the wedding and simply could not get to a point we agreed on. We said our "good nights" feeling frustrated and not too pleased with the one another since he simply did not see my view point and surely he felt the same about me. We watched this video individually throughout our day, touched in our own way, and when Graym came over later that evening for a class we've been taking together we wrapped our arms around one another and apologized the first moment we could. We had witnessed a story of love; a story of cherishing the important things and realized how small and unimportant our disagreement had been. We had gotten upset over something so trivial, something that wasn't even of secondary importance let alone primary. Grace. It's something that we so desperately need and something we lack so often. I'm so glad that Graym and I could share grace with one another yesterday evening and that this video opened our hearts to see the areas in our lives where we need grace to overflow. I hope that we continue to forgive the small things, to recognize them as tiny and unimportant moments in our lives and focus on the grand, beautiful, and wonderful things that too often pass before us. I pray we can more often be like Ian and Larissa, filled with joy, gratitude, and satisfaction.
I haven't figured out how to embed videos in my blog yet, but you can click here to watch the video. May you be blessed.
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