Nashville Wedding Weekend

I just returned from a weekend in Nashville to celebrate the marriage of my dear friends, Kelsey and Michael Bingham! The whole wedding was probably one of the most fun-filled, God-honoring, joyful weddings I've ever been a part of. The other bridesmaids and I had a couple conversations about what a difference it made that both of the families of the bride and groom loved Kelsey and Michael so well and that they both wanted the wedding to be a clear picture of Christ and the church. Our RUF campus minister gave the homily and left us all asking him to save it for a few (slash many) years down the road for our weddings.

All that aside, the real reason that the wedding was awesome was that we wrote a song and dance toast for K&M at the reception and we pretty much stole the show. Video to come.

An added bonus to the weekend came when we visited Kelsey's church on Sunday morning, Christ Community, where they were having an RUF sunday! Kevin Twit led worship, along with Emily Deloach, who has a beee-yoo-tiful voice. If you haven't heard of Indelible Grace Music, you should look into it!

We sang this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cnEDUMfPXs

This hymn has been very close to me this summer, as support raising has turned out to be a huge lesson in trust and patience. God seems to be teaching my that when we ask to grow, he's not going to do it the easy way, or at all the way we want it.

Also, when fellow RUF intern and bridesmaid for the weekend, Catherine, and I went to look for the RUF support table outside, we found three fellow interns from our intern class! We thought we wouldn't get to see you guys til October!

The weekend reminded me that I have so much to be thankful for! It felt like we were receiving one blessing after another! I got to spend one last weekend with my Furman besties and roommates before we all went our separate ways, was hosted by an incredible family that took us in as if we were their own kids (shout out to Kaka Ray!), and was given a beautiful reminder of how Christ loves us.