Fasten your seatbelt this is going to be a wild ride! But it will be fun! Ha ha!
This is our future son in love, Josh and our sweet daughter Michelle... Delle. They were just engaged and we are just bustling with activity over here at the Forest Cathedral. This photo was taken in front of the great church the couple will marry in this fall...this was after the service and meeting with the wedding coordinator. We had just talked with my new friend, Amos...the precious security guard who had shown Delle and I around the previous week. I tell Jem, "I made a new friend!"
We just love this place...right in the heart of downtown...down the street from where my husband and I were born, where my parents were married once upon a time...My husband and I have both teared in the balcony of this place and I have a feeling water works will be coming once again. The stained glass windows of Jesus and His little Lambs shine over the city as a beacon from this place.
So far the people and leaders of this church have been very kind and we are so grateful.
The message we heard this past Sunday was *seeing*, seeing through Jesus' eyes...various things. I do believe we Children of God receive the same memos from the Lord!
We are so excited for Josh and Michelle and look forward to the coming year! God has been so good to have this church open for the date, this fall. Even the pastor at this church we love to listen to will be marrying them. Not only the sanctuary of this church beautiful, full of history, can you imagine during the wars? The families that wept and prayed in this place. The hall at the church is a neat one, it has an old fashioned feel to it and I'm thinking... There are going to be some things done a bit differently. Classic simplicity and sweetness. A sweet First Kiss at the altar. : ) We pray God will be glorified.
I'll be back soon, just wanted to update that little did I know when I wrote about this neat church... the homeless who sleep upon the steps and I have since learned one precious man who sleeps there is a member of this church...he watches for the other homeless there. The church feeds the homeless people four times a week...that's the spirit of the church that my daughter and new son in love will be marrying here soon. God sure moves in mysterious ways!
What a different way of life we have! We have the beauty of the country and the simple life, the smalltown but yet can travel in our space capsules of sorts to downtown...both have their special characteristics. I love both in different ways... Beautiful people in both. ... if we *see*.
I'll close with this cute video of Petula Clark singing "Downtown"...I used to sing this as a little girl in my cotton bathing suit with the water sprinkler above my slide with my little friends, Tina and Dina when they would come to visit their grandma across the street. We would pretend we were in a show together! : )
Goodnight Loves, ~amelia
