As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I was asked this question by Nathaniel and it made me smile as what greater rejoicing is there than the true heart who celebrates for the groom as the best man. I wanted to thank the people who were kind to TL and I in the news of our being married in September. We were married on the day that we met, so many years ago. I remember asking God long before that where my spouse lived. He said in the metro. I thought, "Ok I have some family around there, but I don't know anyone there". Years later it all came true when TL and I started talking online, about of all things Pride and Prejudice. I honestly thought TL looked like a character from Throw Mama from the Train. We got to know each other in the written word first.
I have had a most troubling life, and in one episode, I was asking the Holy Ghost to talk to me as I always do, and He had me open the Bible up to the verse about the Disciple Nathaniel in which Jesus said, "Behold a man in whom there is no guile". I knew that God was talking about me, but it was not exactly like I used the word guile ever, so I looked it up the old way and guile means deceit and lies, which is where satan slithers around. I never thought of myself as that type of person that God would say about me that I had no guile. It changed me as I knew God was looking at me in ways I never thought of. It was like when I heard Him one time and He kept repeating PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE. In unhappy times, hearing that you should be patient as you are waiting around expecting God to do things is not something you want to hear. It proved correct though and I have always tried to adhere to patience, even as I usually am expressing things loudly, angrily and with colourful verbiage I tend to express things in.
Meet you on the other side.
Can those of us that aren't gonna make it prepare the way for the 144000 that will sing a new song?
I view Nathaniel in a great way as the Bible verse, in a man in whom there is no guile. What a lovely way of looking at the world he has in asking, "If those of us who are not going to be delivered through this, can we help those who can?" The answer of course is yes and so very selfless.
The Holy Ghost brings to mind the Words of Christ in those who save their lives will lose them and those who lose their lives will save them. When I thought I was going to die, I told God, 'Ok I accept this and I accept being murdered as Your Will be done, not mine". It is obvious I'm not dead. This happened a few times and I know it was God having me make a decision if I loved Him or my life. For that example, I gained this life to serve Him
Something inside of me, tells me that Nathaniel by being selfless has earned a blessing from God to be brought through all of this. Being selfless, surrendering to God's Will, and in a man who has no guile.
I promised about the wedding in more details as a thank you, so I had been putting things off to August as we are busy as busy and I wanted to be married when we met. So the end of August we go in and I find out that I have more than 30 days on this license. Great news, but not any justice of the peace. I was not in favor of a preacher as I really do not like the pompous clergy and I was not looking to get lecture at for weeks by a Lutheran minister telling us how to behave. Yes people need to be told what to do in marriage in their responsibilities, but TL and I had this worked out. We had been living together without sex for years, no matter what people thought we were doing, and the Pastor believed us as it was true, so we understood what being together is from fights to fury to peace and love.
I had remembered seeing a preacher who had got kicked out of a Church here and I told TL that we should get him. I kind of like people that no one else wants around, so we hunted him down and he said he would do it.
His life had been shattered and he was quite broken. I had no idea that God intended to use our marriage to restore a man literally, but that is what God intended. TL said,"Ok God we didn't get married for 9 years, and the reason why is You were going to use our wedding to bring someone back to life".
We invested I think something like 15 hours in talking to this man before we married, and we became friends. I was amused as it was supposed to be about us, but he said we were fine, and it was his need to just unload things that needed unloading.
The wedding was on Grandpa's porch. It was HAARP ass fog that morning like most, but it cleared off at 11 AM when we got married. I honestly don't remember a thing about the ceremony and what was said. I told TL before, "I just want it to be 6 pm and all of this over, so we can go back to us".
It was just the two people who stood up for us, our old neighbors and the Pastor. It was lovely day, where we talked in the living room until night about things that only we can chatter on about for hours.
I can't say that I feel that different married as before. What TL did for me is validate me in being wanted. I have told TL that I'm not ever getting married again, because I have that security now which can not disappear. I'm like that in, I caught a fox in a trap which was a major accomplishment and I never really was interested in it in again that much as I proved it could be done. I have often in life, just backed away when I know I have won, without completing what was at hand. I did not need the proof as I knew I had accomplished it.
I would that more people who think they are not going to get through this, understand that they are probably the ones who are going to see the end in being delivered through it. The ones who expect they are God's answer to all, are the ones who are going to get the horrid end.
We are very thankful to our children who have helped God bring us to this point of His Promise. They have a part in our blessing and covering in Jesus the Christ. An example is JYG. If I had piles of cash I would buy him a pick up, because his two are not working very good, and he is down to the one he was going to sell us, before in his kindness sold us a 1992 Ford which we fixed up this past summer. He needs it now, but he will use this other Ford that the front end grinds in. He has a replacement out in the yard, and we will help him if he needs it, as we helped his brother, the Troll, put the rear end in a pick up he had this past summer.
JYG though was rewarded today in we were standing there and his evil brother, who lives down the road, had JYG just flabbergasted in he had a backhoe kind of truck and there he was driving it with what looked like a shower spraying all over. It was oil out of the main cylinder on the boom. JYG said, "Why didn't he fix that where it was sitting". It was amusing though as smoke was rolling off the engine and a guy who was with us, said, 'That is allot of expensive oil to be replaced showering all over".
For us, our 40 dollar haul from JYG was assorted items like an LL Bean coat for TL and a half jug of olive oil, from an old woman who liked country music and either she or her husband had a penchant for naked men having anal sex, as the movies were quite amusing, as one never knows what is people's houses until they are gone. Yes Christmas and Thanksgiving decorations, but then there is the anal homo sex vids which are destined to be buried for some archaeologist to find after Jesus returns.
I should close after that peculiar Brier Patch tale of blankets, baking pans and a window fan which I forgot from before, but JYG lets me hide things by his house, so we can pick them up later.
May God bless the good of you for your kindness to us. Always believe that God will deliver you through as I believe that. Amen and Amen
agtG
