Bounding Toward the Cliff

Life is a walk.

A walk where we are either heading toward Heaven or Hell.

In this walk of faith or disbelief, for me I am heading toward my Heavenly Father. In this race of faith I am striving to run as fast as I can toward the goal. To the best of my ability and not staggering (though I do in my weakness) or taking my own sweet time. I press on. And I’ve pressed on hard for as long as I can remember.

Marriage is like leaping off a cliff holding onto your spouse’s hand and not knowing quite what to expect after that.

What attracts most people to marriage is that exciting feeling of jumping off. Though to me that sounds like an adrenaline I could do without, it’s something people absolutely love. I’d equivilate that in this illustration to the feelings of being in love. They come on only in a moment and, though they may be there for the rest of the ride, are not as strong as that first step. But that feeling is amazing!

In an attempt to make that crazy leap (or “big step” as people seem to call it!) I tied myself to AJ Greene. Just like a three-legged race. Taking slow steps and getting used to how we step, how fast we go, what precautions we take, the weaknesses we have, be it a lack of awareness of the others around us or the attitudes we have during the race (it can be numerous things), and we started to find patterns that fit for us.

Step…step…

Soon it became a rhythm that came naturally between our steps.

Step, step, step, step.

Trust was built between those steps and as we both looked up in the direction of the Father he guided those steps. When one was weak, the other seemed strong. A grace that was notable.

Step, step, bound, bound, bound!

AJ and I have spent the past 8 months focusing most of our time on this race. Rather than wanting those exciting thrills of just being next to each other or wanting to leap off that cliff so badly we have gazed upon the Lord who draws us to himself and have striven to listen to how he says we should walk.

For that, he has blessed us.

In November of this year, unlike the lose string we have practiced with, AJ and I will bind unbreakable bands to each other (represented in the rings) in a commitment of trust and faith.

Many people, especially the world, views how quickly we are bounding toward that cliff of marriage as foolishness and that we need to spend years and years learning and getting used to each other. But as AJ wraps his arm around me and we run faster and faster toward it we smile in excitement for the unknown future, trusting that, just as God has brought us this far, he will lead us the whole rest of the way.

And we’ll fly!