Wandering with Reckless Abandon

When I was a youth pastor I would often use the term re-entry after a retreat. Our students would come back on a spiritual high and then head back into the real world.

The last ten days have been a blur:

The wedding was beautiful, I cried through much of it, Theresa looked truly radiant, and so many of our friends and family came out that we lost count.
Our reception was fantastic, I just wish it was longer so that we could have visited with more people.
The honeymoon was incredible. Jamaica is proof of God’s creative genius, and the resort we stayed at was the perfect balance of privacy and stuff to do. Theresa and I both needed the vacation, and it was wonderful to spend it together as man and wife.

So here we go, we are in the re-entry stage. Learning to live together in the same place, share the same bathroom (she got the worst part of that deal), and starting to do life together on a far more intimate plane. I am excited, but anxious… we have much to do as we adjust to one another, and we need to learn how to carve out time together.

As we begin our marriage, we need to consider how we can build into one another well… and I need to wrestle through whether selling cars is the best way that we can do that. The idea that I need to be at work five or six loooooong days each week, is not one that excites either of us, and so we find ourselves trying to figure out what is in our best interests: both relationally and financially.

And while we have some heavy stuff to wade through, there is a whole lot of pure, unadulterated joy to be shared as well. I am now living with the woman that I love, and we spend a good chunk of time laughing and giggling at one another, but also enjoying how we are continuing to learn how to love each other well…

I am going to be posting pictures soon, but for now you will have to be satisfied by this one:

I told you that she was absolutely radiant… I am a very, very fortunate man.