| | Hey everybody :)
I'm getting married this August *gasp* *what?!* *are you serious?!* *congrats!* *wow!*
Yeah. I'm getting married! To whom? The woman that shares my name, Alexandra!
We've will be together for three years when August comes. I proposed to her a month ago - which is pretty crazy. It was a nice evening, moonlit beach, and the ring was shiny. We've been great together - I love her deeply and I know that she would be an awesome wife and future mother and very future old woman.
She'd let me watch college football and NFL. She'd let me eat burgers. She'd be cool with me golfing.
She's a Christian and would help me with my sermons. She'd always be up for a good DVD and popcorn. She always wants to swim in the pool, and she'd be up for any plane trip to any country. Oh yeah, perfect for me.
The only flaw she has is that... she loves pizza. This causes me to eat pizza, and even though I tell myself I'll only have two slices, I end up eating 3/4 and she 1/4 of the pizza. So, I expect to be happily married and morbidly obese in five years.
On a serious note, I'm really excited to get married. It's a huge commitment that I'm making, but I'm not a stranger to big commitments - I've been committed to my family, to God, to education, and now to Alexa. Marriage is truly a gift from God.
We can live together with God's blessing. We couldn't live together before, because it is not right in His eyes for a couple to live together when they are married. In Lubbock, we lived in different apartments, and I would visit her, and viceversa. It will be really great to come back and see my wife home and not have to leave to my apartment when the movie ends or whatever.
Living together when you're not married is like opening a Christmas present and playing with it, then re-wrapping it the day before Christmas, and then opening it. What surprise is there? What excitement is there? It totally waters down the whole marriage concept, and it's probably one of the main reasons why the divorce rate is so high today.
God has given marriage as a blessing. Can you imagine if there was no God - there would be no marriage. We'd all be like animals, just enjoying each other and living it up. Marriage is a mature way to respond to love, and it is a commitment for us to respect our spouse and for us to never touch another person for as long as we live.
Many live together when they are not married. I want to tell to whoever is doing this and reading my blog - move out! I know it wouldn't be easy, but don't you want to really know if you can love your other one without the benefits of sex and living together? Put it to the test, I tell you. Take away those things and see if you can still love. Later on in life, we'll only get older, and those things will matter less and less. What lasts will be the true, pure love that was there from youth.
I know I love Alexa because I've loved her and wanted to marry her without living with her or knowing her in the bedroom. We did not live right when we first met, but we've changed and made a commitment to God. We've not "lived together" for over two years. We know that we are strong and we have God's blessing.
Go against what the world tells you - and listen to what God tells you. The world's message changes every second, but God's message stays the same for centuries.
I'm going to plunge into the married world! It's funny - when I announce this news to people - there are two different kinds of responses. Responses from MARRIED people and from UNMARRIED people. The married people are always like, "wow! aww! congrats! that's so cool!" The unmarried people are always like, "are you serious? are you sure? wow! whoa! thats a big decision? forever?!" Ha, ha ha
Let me tell you - weddings are stressful - but they are fun. Alexa is bearing the bigger burden as the wedding will be in Canada and it's in her hometown in Milton, so she's really busy getting everything together. I'm helping out from afar the best I can but she's really great about doing all the work. Her parents help a lot, and everything.
We'll be in DC this fall! So, y'all DCians - expect a newly married couple to rock the campus :) We plan to have a "wedding party" for all who couldn't attend our wedding and show pictures, have a wedding cake, etc. So be sure to come if you are around.
Never would I have thought I'd be getting married at 22 years old. That's the beauty of life.
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| | Posted 7/26/2008 2:27 PM - 209 Views - 18 eProps - 9 comments
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Just gotta tell you to beware the factory that comes with it. We for some odd reason have soon to be 6 kids. 
ha, just kidding- i loved seeing what you guys had when i went to visit lubbock.. be sure to have someone take LOADS of pictures, so i can feel like i was there through the pictures, ok? i'll probably miss the wedding party (alas, i'm still in california, eh) but be sure to spread the loveee for me! 
