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| "i could promise to hold you, and to cherish you. i could promise to be there, in sickness and in health. i could say till death do us part. but i won't. those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope. i do not stand here on my wedding day optimistic or full of hope. i am not optimistic. i am not hopeful. i am sure. i am steady. i'm a heart man. take it apart, put it back together, hold it in my hands. i am a heart man. so this, i am sure. you are my partner. my lover. my very best friend. my heart, my heart beats for you. and on this day, the day of our wedding, i promise you this. i promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands. i promise you... me." :) | | |
| ...my little buddy, i heart you! :)
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| i've
always dreamed of being much more than i am. more organized, more
disciplined, more loving... much more "much more," if you know what i
mean. each january, i set out a new self-improvement program. this
year i'll get in shape. this year i'll keep my house clean. this
year i'll send out birthday cards. on time. this year - really - i'll
be the loving, forgiving, obedient woman of God i long to be instead of the
willful, stubborn, disobedient christian i sometimes see staring back at me in
the mirror.
all noble goals. and truth be told, i am much more at peace when my house
is clean. and i believe that if you really love people, you ought to care
enough to send the very best (or at least one of those ninety-nine-cent
cards). and i know that genuine happiness only comes from living close to
God and obeying Him.
i really do want to be different. i want to be changed.
maybe you've discovered, as i have, that most of my new year's resolutions have
little effect on a day-to-day life except to add a burden of guilt and a
feeling of failure. continually striving, yet never arriving.
hoping, praying to be different, only waking up to find you're not as far along
as you'd hoped to be. sometimes feeling like you're right back
where you started... again.
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| things in the past, things yet unseen
wishes and dreams that are yet to come true
all of my hopes, all of my plans
my heart and my hands are lifted to you
:)
... faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading...
- oswald chambers -
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we
all think we're going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our
expectations aren't met. but sometimes, our expectations sell us short. sometimes,
the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. you've got to wonder
why we cling to our expectations - because the expected is just what keeps us
steady. standing. still.
the
expected is just the beginning, the
unexpected is what changes our lives...
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