Wedding Music

We got another picture taken! :) (Photo courtesy of his mom.)

Wedding plans are coming along well, and the engagement is going pretty smoothly too. We sent out our wedding invitations last Monday. The RSVPs have begun rolling in, and I get super-excited every time someone tells me they plan to come! :)

On Saturday, Mom, Matt, and I went up to Iowa City with the van to move home my belongings from Iowa City and to do some tie shopping. We met Alice for lunch and it was great to see her again!

Lunch with Alice! :)

We had our official "engagement supper" on Saturday (yes, the one people typically have the weekend they get engaged) at the Schulz house with both families. It was a wonderful evening and a delicious meal, and his mom was good enough to get a picture taken of us! (See photo above.)

My wonderful brother Travis came over to Fairbury with Matt & me on Sunday to Ben and Bethann's wedding. Afterward we met the rest of the Massner family in Morton to celebrate Angie's 43rd birthday. :)

And yesterday I saw the beginnings of my wedding dress for the first time. So exciting!

So I suppose things are going well with the wedding planning and engagement. :) And now for the song that has been going through my head this week...

Wedding Music

(Sung by the Princeville Apostolic Christian Church Choir)

All of these preparations bring another wedding to mind. We've all been invited, our response is needed, and we must be prepared. That wedding will be the Heavenly wedding celebration when Christ will come to meet his bride, the Church!

He has sent His invitations!  What did you do with yours? Did you rejoice when God asked YOU to come to His wedding? "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matt. 11:28)

All must RSVP!  Just as I am overjoyed at every person who plans to attend, so are Christ and the angels in Heaven rejoicing when somebody accepts His invitation. "Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth" (Luke 15:10).

The bride must keep making preparations until that day!  I cannot go into my wedding unprepared, and neither can the church. The bride of Christ is preparing herself for the day when the bridegroom comes to take His believers to Heaven. We must be watchful and prayerful until that great wedding day! "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh" (Matt 24:44).

There will be joy!  ...at both weddings. :) "Well done, thou good and faithful servant...enter thou into the joy of thy lord." (Matt. 25:21).

See: The Parable of the Marriage Feast (Matt. 22:1-14)

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Five weeks down, five to go... :) Have a good week!