Lukas and Amy met at a church retreat playing games. They are still going to church and still playing. 

 

Their wedding was a celebration whose focus was on the two great commandments.... love for God and love for their friends. Amy was unconcerned about herself to the point that she was undecided about what she would wear, and took a few possible outfits along. Amy and Lukas helped make the fruit kabobs for the reception, hung twinkle lights in the hall, hauled baskets of crayons for guests to draw on the tables, and thanked each person for coming. She sang a song to him called Doubly Good to You. I have listened a dozen times already and the joy has not yet diminished.

 

They read their vows off their IPhones.

 

Vows To Amy

Here and now I promise,
surrounded by this community of family and friends
and in the presence of our God
That I will love you
I will serve you
I will defend you
and I will honor you.

I promise, with all the integrity that I have been granted
that I will choose you.  Only you.  Over and over again.

When life's path becomes uncertain and dark
I will stay by your side.

I will celebrate your success
and shoulder your discouragement.

I will feel your pain
and make your joy my own.

I will encourage your spirit
and make your adventures, Ours.

I will not forget the grace that has been given me - through you.
I promise all these things as long as we both shall live.

 

I know that God loves each person on this planet. I believe that those relationships bring Him vast joy. Yet having felt the eruption of ecstasy that bubbles up each time I hear Amy sing to Lukas, I glimpse the possibility of a source of happiness that is more immense.

 

God's pleasure is still more resplendent when His children love each other.