Jared and Heather will enter into holy matrimony today, January 16, 2009.  They aren’t your average church kids.  They’re part of a group of young bucks I’m privileged to know and call my spiritual family. None wealthy or influential in the grand scheme of things as determined by this world’s values, yet filled with power and extremely dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. It’s exciting to know that God is building an army of such young people across the earth for His purposes in our day. Not only have they done the ‘hard things’ like tithing, giving to the poor, loving the lost regularly, serving the single mother and today’s U.S. orphans, they have said “no” to many pleasures and frivolities that America’s youth tend to indulge themselves in.  They are the kind who have endeavored to live Biblical Christianity.   They are not perfect people, but strive to be more like Jesus every single day.  They have endured through trials and felt the pain of being misunderstood. They have stood strong over time.  They have arrived early, stayed late, and ‘been there’  faithfully, consistently, like unmovable pillars. They don’t just show up at youth group – they serve as leaders in the body of Christ. They operate like fathers and mothers in a fatherless and motherless culture. They spend their gas money on someone else, for no personal gain.    I’m so proud of them.  I honor these covenant friends and specifically, this precious couple today on their special day.  I’m privileged to call them my children.  It is the greatest joy of a mother’s heart to truly rejoice in her son’s choice of a spouse.  Heather is ‘exceedingly abundantly above’ in my book.  She has been such a marvelous comrade and confidant to me, our local church and our family, in kingdom-building for more than a decade.

I’m walking on air today, celebrating this grand occasion.  God is so good.  All the glory is His!