{"id":13109,"date":"2020-09-08T04:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T09:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13109"},"modified":"2020-09-08T04:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T09:36:17","slug":"for-the-long-hull-aka-long-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13109","title":{"rendered":"In it for the Long Hull aka Long Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While Ryan and Shawntel have been away a few days, I\u2019ve stayed here with their boys. I loved big brother, Bear, his girlfriend, Hannah, and oldest brother, Braden, and his wife, Ruth, hanging out with us. My heart has been filled with love. Four boys in this Wuerch family here in Austin \u2013 so I must tell you about the joy and fun it was to have some \u201cgirl\u201d time, talking girl “talk”. It was easy to talk that talk because of the family wedding this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruth, my grandson Braden\u2019s wife, my \u201cgranddaughter\u201d, is a triplet. The last of the triplets married her dream man on Friday here in Austin. Of all the places in the world where these two sisters would end up is here in Austin. The wedding had been planned for a later date, but they couldn\u2019t wait any longer. They married in a sweet and intimate outdoor setting (the groom\u2019s parent\u2019s home) here in Austin. Pictured here is Rebeca, her new husband, Ben, and that\u2019s my Ruth, the Matron of Honor, behind her. Photo with Braden, Ruth, Rebeca & Ben includes the third triplet, Ruben, who is a Navy Officer, with his wife. Covid kept them from traveling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We three girls oohed and aahed at the tender and precious moments as Ruth played the wedding video for us. Both bride and groom had written their own vows, so beautifully said through tears and laughter. My heart was touched seeing this strong man, cry his way through almost the whole wedding. He was marrying the love of his life. The three of us teared up when Rebeca, while saying her vows said \u201cI must stop a moment so I can make a vow to someone else\u201d. Rebeca walked over to Ben\u2019s younger sister and vowed to love her, protect her, and care for her all the days of her life. That\u2019s when the tears flowed from everyone at the wedding and we three girls who were enamored by the beauty of that special moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I always love hearing the words from I Corinthians 13 that most often are heard at weddings. The minister started with these words: \u201cLove is patient. Love is kind. Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice in wrongdoing. But rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.\u201d As soon as the minister started speaking those words, it started to rain and, so the next words were: \u201cI\u2019ve been told on many occasions that rain is a sign that the marriage will be long and enduring. I think we\u2019re looking at a couple who are going to celebrate 75 or 80 years of marriage.\u201d That is when a pause came to reconvene under the patio. Moments they\u2019ll never forget for those 75 or 80 years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, with great expectations, Ben and Rebeca have begun their lives together. I\u2019m so faith-filled that I believe their vows before God of loving, caring, sharing, and helping-each-other-reach-their-full-potential marriage will be blessed by God. A beautiful rite-of-passage that once were two hearts, are now one. As I type this blog, I pray those words for my readers today \u2013 to remember 1 Corinthians 13, with those love words, and to do a self-analysis. \u201cIs our love still defined by the words of St. Paul? If not \u2013 then why not begin again to remember and put those words first place for the long haul? Ben\u2019s last name is Hull \u2013 so that was the theme of the wedding \u201cIn it for the long Hull\u201d. I pray the long Hull and long HAUL for them and you, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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