Wedding in the Garden

Wedding in the garden...


You are like a private garden, my treasure, my bride!
You are like a spring that no one else can drink from, a fountain of my own.
You are like a lovely orchard bearing precious fruit, with the rarest of perfumes:
song of songs 4:12-13




For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullnes of God.

Ephesians 3:14-19


The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,
shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
Prov 4:18







God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
In this way, love is made complete among us so
that we will have confidence on the day of judgment,
because in this world we are like him.
There is no fear in love.
But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:16-19




May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Prov 5:18













A stolen kiss....













For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 3:24





Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his.
And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring.
So guard yourself in your Spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
Malachi 2:15

"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one.
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
MT 19:4-6



The morning of the wedding...