we will be married…
on June 9, 2012
in Mingo Junction, OH
at St. Agnes Catholic Church
:D
Kyle and I
engagement photos sneak peek
photo by Marie Mashyna
ITS HAPPENING.
i don’t have to wait anymore. it’s happening.
I’M ENGAGED.
5/7/11 - 1:19PM
Raccoon Creek State Park, Wildflower Reserve
beautiful and the sun and everything just beautiful!
this hair. <3
i’ve decided: baby’s breath will be the flower <3
THIS!
i will have plenty of wine/spirits bottles by the time wedding rolls around! YES!
this. loves this. so simple. :D
to poverty! (a post taken from my other blog on 11/11)
In a toast last night, among four friends, one of the men turned to us and raised his glass of wine. We were drinking wine that had gone a little bitter, out of mismatching glasses in our kitchen after spending the night in a classy bar with a tinkly piano playing tunes in the background. As he raised his glass he looked at each of us, and said, “To poverty…!”
I smiled and laughed and raised mine to toast with everyone else, and my beau looked at me in a telltale sign of forward thinking.
You see, I have no fear of being poor.
In fact, I look forward to the day, if it is to come. Not to say that I would squander money now in order to live in poverty later, but rather that truly, earthly belongings and money have no real bearing on true happiness — or the love that is in your home.
I look forward to the day when I may have children running through the house — not a large house, mind you, but one just big enough to fit each with a tight fit of comfort… but love abounding, always. Children are more important, more joy-filled, more rewarding than luxuries. Having a family filled with love is so much greater than having a house filled with unnecessary frivolities.
Luxuries can’t love you back. They can’t cuddle with you and whisper from their bed at night as you turn out the light, “love you too”. They can’t give you the great pleasure of watching them receive their First Eucharist, or growing into beautiful souls. Luxuries cannot replace the joy that children bring to a home.
And true, in charity grows friendship and love among neighbors. Poverty has the grace with it to bring simplicity and charity in all things. When you realize that what you have is not yours, but the Lord’s, you give freely and as necessary (as long as you can provide for your own). This friendship, this gift is too a product of poverty — to live simply.
I have no fear of living hand-to-mouth, of having to save and scrounge every penny that I can, or of working hard in the home to provide a good living environment for a family. I feel that living in poverty gives us the opportunity to greater appreciate the little blessings that God gives to us on a daily basis — to depend on Him for all things and to be grateful for every moment and every little help that we are given.
To live in peaceful poverty, is to trust the Lord with all that I am and have, to be willing to let Him use all of my skills and gifts and my self… to further His Kingdom here on earth.
So we toast to poverty…! To family, to laughter, to the gift of humble and simple living… To trust in the Lord and joy in the little things.
