{"id":21758,"date":"2025-03-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=21758"},"modified":"2025-03-12T06:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T11:43:30","slug":"love-stories-and-the-greatest-love-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=21758","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Love Stories and the Greatest Love of All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here I go again — another love story unfolding in our family!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, on Valentine\u2019s Day, my fourth grandson, Brennan, proposed to his sweetheart, Kylie, marking the start of a beautiful new chapter. And just three weeks later, on March 8th, my only granddaughter, Alexia, said “yes” to her sweetheart, Winston.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And just like that, life keeps moving. One moment, they\u2019re children playing in the backyard; the next, they\u2019re stepping into forever with the ones they love. I\u2019m so grateful for these joys, these new beginnings, these answered prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winston planned his proposal with stealth and intention — inviting Alexia on a hike, something they\u2019ve always loved to do together. There\u2019s nothing quite like the Tennessee mountains and valleys, where the sky stretches wide, and the world feels hushed beneath God\u2019s handiwork.<\/p>\n\n\n

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That evening, they face-timed us, with smiles as wide as the horizon behind them. But truth be told, we weren\u2019t surprised. We already loved Winston from the first time we met him last Thanksgiving. He was already part of the family in our hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now, with two engagements in the family, we\u2019re watching love unfold right before our eyes — two young couples stepping into their futures, full of expectation, dreams, and the joy of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n\n\n

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But even as we celebrate these earthly love stories, I can\u2019t help but be reminded of the greatest love story of all — Christ\u2019s love for His bride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as a bride waits for her groom, we, as the Church, are waiting for ours — Jesus, our Bridegroom. Scripture tells us, \u201cFor your Maker is your husband — the Lord Almighty is His name\u201d (Isaiah 54:5). One day, there will be a heavenly wedding feast, and we, His beloved, will be gathered with Him for eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earthly love is a beautiful gift, but no love compares to the relentless, redeeming, and everlasting love of Jesus. And that, my friends, is the love that truly lasts forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here I go again — another love story unfolding in our family! Last month, on Valentine\u2019s Day, my fourth grandson, Brennan, proposed to his sweetheart, Kylie, marking the start of a beautiful new chapter. And just three weeks later, on March 8th, my only granddaughter, Alexia, said “yes” to her sweetheart, Winston. And just like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7417,1210,1769,4884,2135,1392,31416,7313,17587,40,19832,750,31417,402,22921,31419,775,3729,31418],"class_list":["post-21758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alexia-wallace","tag-blog","tag-christian","tag-engagement","tag-everlasting-love","tag-facebook","tag-greatest-love","tag-hike","tag-horizon","tag-inspiration","tag-love-stories","tag-love-story","tag-march-8th","tag-new-beginning","tag-proposal","tag-tennessee-mountains","tag-thanksgiving","tag-valentines-day","tag-winston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21764,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions\/21764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}