Extend Grace

 Engaged!

Every day of your lives together 

seek to extend as much grace to your husband as God has extended to you.

Priscilla Shirer

For this is the original message we heard:
We should love each other.
1 John 3:11 (MSG)

February 17

The woman in the photo above is a teacher in our area and a member of our church.  I look forward to her glowing smile and warm hug each Sunday.  We've been privileged to get to know her fiancé, before he popped the question, and are excited for this period of engagement for them.

Engaged..what a KOOL word for a precious, yet practical, God ordained process.  

Some Merriam Webster definitions, which hold critical elements for a successful marriage are:

  Pledged to be married. Betrothed.

    Greatly interested.        Committed

Being in gear.              Meshed.

  Involved in activity.     Occupied 

A good synonym and new word for my vocabulary is affiance: trust, confidence.

As husband and wife, we are called to love one another, but the actions listed above are the instruments which create the depth of that love (along with Christ being our first love, scripture being honored in the union, and prayer and forgiveness being the glue that holds the love together forever)!