5 months away!

  

Dear Erika and Keagan, 

I was thinking about how I could come alongside you as you prepare for your wedding, and I thought I'd make a little wedding countdown blog sending you something each month to come alongside you all in this exciting but very busy time. This will also be a reminder to write a letter to each other on the 28th of each month in the notebook I gave you all. 

So, welcome to the "Celebrating August 28th" blog for you where I'll be sharing a poem or a quote or a verse for you each month before your wedding (and then as part of your wedding gift, I'll keep it up once a month until your one-year anniversary in 2027!) 

a prayer for love, love, love

-  Kate Bowler 

Lord, the shadowed world 

is full of troubles.

So give me the good, 

inconvenient work of love.

Link my life to others 

so that their worries 

become my own.

Give me errands I don’t want 

which ease the burdens of others.

Divert me from the plans I’ve made 

to zip from A to B

when you have better ideas. 

Put my hands to work 

with a less-grumbling heart 

and let their dreams drift into my own.

 

You’ve given me tools to use 

and ideas to fashion 

that will bring me neither recognition, 

nor money, nor praise.

You’ve made love such a sneaky thing. 

The more we love as you do, 

the less we are keeping track of it at all.