It is hard to believe that school ended just 8 weeks ago! It has been a crazy summer and it's almost time to head back to Ghana for another year! Just 4 weeks after we arrived back from Ghana Becca and I got MARRIED!!! On June 28th we started the journey of the rest of our lives together! It has been amazing so far and can only get better as we learn to serve and love our Savior and each other. I forget who said this, but I read a while back that marriage is not meant to just make you happy and satisfied, but it is meant to show you all of your insufficiencies and make you depend more and more on Christ. I am excited to learn and grow and follow wherever God leads us now and in the future!
One thing that God has been teaching me over the past few weeks and the even the few months before the wedding is that I cannot love Becca (or anyone else for that matter) as much as Christ loves her. I included that fact in my vows, that I will love her the best that I can knowing that Christ loves her so much more than I ever can. Marriage and ministry in Ghana has been teaching me how insufficient I am to love like Christ. I think of myself way more often than I should and I do so many things and say so many things that are all about me. I think I'm something special and should worry about myself above everything else, when Christ calls me to do the exact opposite. He says that whoever wants to be first should become the servant of all! How?! I don't know! But I know that Christ is working in me as to what that means in my life. I catch myself thinking about how everything will look to others and what they will think of me. Or I catch myself thinking of how this is going to effect me and my life. My prayer is that God would continue to teach me what it means to love others above myself and stop being so selfish! It is a work in progress and will always be a work in progress!
I'm gonna keep this blog short because Becca and I have started a new blog together and will be updating that in the next two weeks! I will send out the new blog from this blog when we our first entry is posted! Until then, it is time to pack and get ready to go back HOME!!
