7:42 p.m. Today's project was to get up early (for a Sunday!) attend 1st service, get swab-tested for being a bone marrow donor, put on dressy duds, and head to our friends' daughter's wedding!
Steve and I discovered something important while filling out the potential donor paperwork: he cannot be a blood marrow donor because of his sleep apnea. I asked the tech "Why not?" while I was getting ready to rub the swabs inside my gums. It's because Steve were selected as a match, he would have to go under general anesthesia for the bone marrow extraction and breathing problems are a dangerous complication. Lifestream won't put donors at risk. I am grateful for that information, because we'll know to have our doctor take precautions should Steve need surgery for his own health's sake. Thank you, Lord, "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," Colossians 2:3.
The Zosa Ranch, off Old Highway 395 in the hills above Escondido, is a large site, with avocado groves and spacious lawns the setting for a beautiful bed and breakfast inn. The bridal party spent the night last night, and I believe the newlyweds will be there this evening. The ceremony site was lovely and intimate; a violin duo provided classical ambiance. Everything was done well, with one neat twist--the bride's father is a judge, so he walked his daughter down the aisle, gave her away, and married the couple! He preached the Word of God, the most important detail of all. "Genesis 2:24 says, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' "
After the ceremony, we guests were wondering about the cake, a fascinating tower of dice, with cute figures on the top, until the bride's mom explained that the wedding's theme was "Games." The couple met online as part of a gaming--not gambling-- community, and now are man and wife. Each of us had to meet our spouses somewhere, but this is a particularly 21st century method! If God wants a man and woman to meet, He'll make a way! And His ways and influence over circumstances and "coincidences" are past human understanding.
Proverbs 30:18 and 19 have always fascinated me, in part because they are so true:
There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
Yes, four which I do not understand:
The way of an eagle in the air,
The way of a serpent on a rock,
The way of a ship in the midst of the sea,
And the way of a man with a virgin.
It's not a matter of science, which is clearly able to explain how a ship propels itself through water, or why a serpent suns itself on a rock, or the physiology of an eagle's wings. And there are hundreds of theories of human attraction, for that matter!
But who can explain WHY objects, conveyances and animals work the way they do? Or WHY people fall in love? Only God knows WHY, because He created the world, everything in it, as well as the mechanical forces, emotive and biological principles that make it --and us--work! As for humans taking credit, Who made the brain? The emotions? The sex drive? These things are indeed, "too wonderful for me!"
Take Steve and me. We met at a home Bible study--but we met several other singles, too. How did we become attracted to one another and end up falling in love? It was a work of God, who knew what each of us would need in a life partner.
Weddings bring out these thoughts to long-married couples, and rightly so. We pray that Tyler and Erin might find for themselves a lifetime of Christ-centered love!
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