Hello all, I hope you have had a great start to the week. Tonight James and I started pre-marriage classes. We believe this is fundamental before we embark on this amazing journey. We are very blessed to have a very spiritual couple leading our classes and praying through things and ministering to us. We feel so on fire tonight after such an uplifting first class. For anyone getting married or for future reference please truly consider doing these classes. We also enjoyed the lead up to our first class where James and I were given a questionnaire with regards to marriage, decisions, future, finance, children etc! We were to fill these in seperately, any of you that know us well, know we discuss everything but...we promise we only discussed the questions not the answers :) and after completion! It is a challenging thing for us but essential and God is really there for us. I have to say it's not all as rosy as it looks- we also have a huge "to do" list but we are focussing on the marriage not the day. We had a successful day buying flowers with the family yesterday :) there is more to come in my upcoming posts about the challenges we are facing and the experiences we have had so far but...be encouraged. Marriage is a beautiful thing, we are not blinded by the excitement now and we are not thinking it's all going to be perfect, we are in the real world, we know we'll get things wrong but we are just refusing to be scared because with God at the centre we know everything will work out just as He has planned...NO MATTER WHAT! For those of us who know God and those who don't let this short poem challenge you, put your names where our's are as you read:
"Marriage takes THREE to be complete. It's not enough for two to meet. They must be united in love by love's creator...God above. A marriage that follows God's plan takes more than James and Charlotte, it needs a oneness that comes only from Christ. Marriage takes THREE!"
