In 11 days I will be a happily married man!
I have to say that for a while I didn't think that I was going to reach this point...EVER!

But here I am, by the Grace and Blessing of Jesus, I have found my one and I have to say I'm TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH HER!

I never got around to explaining what being in love truly means, but I will find the time to blog soon.  But I am in love with her and the thoughts of making her my wife helps me do better I promise.

I just want to do right by my marriage. I want God to bless my marriage and bless my wife so much that tears sometimes fall when I pray about it. I want our marriage to be an example to everyone.

I'M GETTING MARRIED

I woke up this morning to talk with God as I do every day. I got in my car and turned on some preparation music. This morning I listened to "Show Me Your Face," by Fred Hammond. I was trying to get to a place where I could talk to God and through faith and hope He would speak back to me. As I was praying I felt a praise develop on my heart and on my mind.
I thanked God for waking me up this morning in my right mind.

I thanked Him for the activity of my limbs.

I thanked Him that all five of my senses were working.

I thanked Him for my future wife. I love her.

I thanked Him for my son. I love him too.

I thanked Him for my friends.

I thanked Him for my parents.

I thanked Him for being God all by himself.

In the midst of all this thanking I thought about the very two principles and commandments that help me keep my faith in the faith and in my walk with Christ: "And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself," (Luke 10:27).

A very powerful tool that we Christians have is the ability to LOVE. And everything and I mean everything is brought together when we LOVE GOD with everything we have and when we LOVE OUR FELLOW MAN as we love ourselves.

So Lord today I tell you publicly that I love you with everything I have. I want to develop a deep and close relationship with You that goes beyond the surface. Teach me how to LOVE you God and show me what I must do to gain Your trust, Your favor, and Your affection towards me.

I love You God so much and I will also work hard to love my enemies, my family, my friends, and all the people around me.

I Love You Lord

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

 Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments," Matthew 22:36-40

There are times when we need to evaluate; evaluate our jobs, evaluate our friends, and may be even evaluate the foods that we eat. Here is the issue I often have with my fellow man (men and women), we never evaluate whether we are ready to be in a relationship.
We enter into relationships honestly just for the sake of being in a relationship, but then we end up unhappy and full of strife. The truth is though if we would just take a moment and ask ourselves if we are truly ready for a relationship.

I'm going to blog a little more about this topic, but I just want to introduce it to my readers.

Here are three things that you should evaluate before getting into a new relationship:

1. Has God cleared you to enter into a new relationship?

2. Are you emotionally ready to enter into a relationship?

3. Are you mentally ready to be in a relationship?

A lot of times we believe that if we are single and not with anyone that automatically makes us a contender for a relationship. We also believe that we are relationship ready because we are often physically compatible with another person and sexually deprived. Let me be very clear this does not make us relationship ready. Physical intimacy and sex does not make you ready for a relationship.

Take time and evaluate if you're ready to be in a relationship and take a look at the three domains above. Again I will elaborate more on this topic soon, but I just had to put it out there. Give you something to chew on.

"This is my boyfriend" "Everyone this is my girlfriend."

Let's just say that the two statements here are spoken by a couple, male and female, been in a relationship for 3 years, and they are 28, and 34.

That is not their pants or waist size, but those numbers represent their ages. Three years of being in a relationship, possibly living together, may have been intimate on many levels, paying bills together, and saying the powerful words, "I love you."

This sounds very beautiful, but there is one drastic flaw to this, they are still calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend! Here is the bottom line, is there ever a time or an age when you are just too old to still be called or considered some one's boyfriend or girlfriend?

When is enough enough? This is the question that I am often asked or this is what comes up when people are getting tired of being clustered into the category of what seems to be the perpetually comfortable terminology of girlfriend, boyfriend, or we are just dating.

JUST DATING!? Seems to me if we have been in a relationship for over a year, living together, having sex, etc... we are doing a lot more than just dating, and please don't throw in having children together.

When do we evolve? When does our relationship grow past the childhood past time of just going steady? Is this what I have to look forward to for the rest of my life? Is this the title that I'm worthy of? Am I too damn old to be called some one's girlfriend? Am I too old to just be your boyfriend?

If there is no time limit on how long you should be in a relationship with someone before you grow or move on, is there an age limit? When is enough enough? I know marriage isn't where everyone wants to go or wants to be, but someone needs to come up with a different title to call me.

After a certain age it is just completely cumbersome to still be considered just a girlfriend or boyfriend right?

We either need a new title or get into some GROWN UP relationships.

I'm just blogging.

Too Old For the Kiddy Pool.