It rained yesterday. Non-stop, all day.
I feel about rain the same way I feel about NASCAR, it just makes me want to sleep and be lazy.
So I was feeling a tad sluggish when I picked Jen up for date night last night. However, I remembered that we were going to our favorite (and the most underrated) restaurant in Stillwater so my spirits were back at, well, break-even.
We went, it was delicious, we saw some friends, chatted for a while about snowboarding and TV shows and churches.
They left and we finished up. About that time our waiter came and told us that the friends we saw called in after getting in their car to go home and told the restaurant to put our meal on their debit card.
I was blown away. In fact, I was so ecstatic that I forgot to tip the poor guy. We had to drive back 20 minutes later so I could give him what he earned.
I was blown away because it would have been so much easier for them to chalk up the night as a success simply for having seen and talked with some friends (us). They went the extra mile though, they impressed me. And the best part is, I know that’s not why they did it.
It might not have been the best wedding I’ve ever been to but it was a 2-day party that’s going to be hard to top.
There were many quotes of the wedding that I can’t post on here for a variety of reasons that include: my mom occasionally reads this blog, other people who read this may or may not know the perpetrators, and me not wanting to get fired from any current or potential job.
I will say this though, one of the most clever things I heard all weekend was that Chad Ward (the groom) should take take the last name of Becca Hinds (the bride) so he would be Chad Hinds-Ward.
Oh yeah and I forgot to take pics of Jen and I so you’ll have to settle for the better looking couple below…
I started reading a new book the other day. Well, actually it’s really old, and it was written by a really wise woman, but it’s new to me.
It’s about a handful of guys, mostly my age, who set sail on an adventure to take the Gospel of Jesus to the far reaches of the Earth. It’s a powerful story.
Here’s a quote from the main character who’s talking to one of his missionary buddies.
He was 25.
“We left our moorings at the Outer Harbor Dock, San Pedro, California at 2:06 today. Mom and Dad stood together watching at the pier side. As we slipped away Psalm 60:12 came to mind, and I called back, ‘Through our God we shall do valiantly.’ They wept some. I do not understand how God has made me. Joy, sheer joy, and thanksgiving fill and encompass me. I can scarcely keep from turning to Pete and saying, ‘Brother, this is great!’ or ‘We never had it so good.’ God has done and is doing all I ever desired, much more than I ever asked. Praise, praise to the God of Heaven, and to His Son Jesus. Because He hath said, ‘I will never leave thee nor forsake thee,’ I may boldly say, ‘I will not fear…’
We, me and her, always try to get our friends something unconventional for their wedding present. We don’t really see our friends as ordinary and to honor them with a gift that screams “I went to Target between the ceremony and reception to see if anything was left on your registry and found these two candle holders” is, well, unbecoming of such wonderful people.
Not that we, uh, haven’t done that.
For our friends Chad and Becca we decided to write them a letter for each day of their honeymoon to tell them what we were praying for them about.
The flowers are Jen’s…not mine. I would have cut little pictures of LeBron out of Sports Illustrated and put them there.
We also ordered them a newlyweds-wine-starter-kit (my words) from this site.
I’m enthralled by art. I barely even know the breadth of the word but every time I see it I just get giddy. These 2 quotes aren’t helping things…
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” – Ernst Fischer
“Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.” – Roy Adzak
I’m going to a wedding this weekend. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while. Maybe it’ll even inspire to have one of my own someday 
Either way I’ll post photos on Monday
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