A Wedding

My only daughter is getting married in two weeks.  I wonder what it will be like.  This isn’t an ordinary wedding.  This wedding will take place in Romania, in a culture I don’t always understand.  I wonder what part of my feelings are normal to all “daughter’s weddings” and what part are special to our situation.  Will I cry…for joy or loss?  Will our relationship change…for better or worse?  Will she be happy…oh dear God please let it be so. 

What an adventure she has before her, even without the Romanian part.  I hope she knows the happiness I have known with her father.  Marriage…it’s not easy, but it’s so worth it.

I don't think it's going to be quite like the movies with big moments of reflection and gushing emotions between mother and daughter…at least not in our family.  I hope that it will be filled with laughter and hugs though.

So where do I fit after all this is over?  Even though she has been an adult for some time now I feel like I have a necessary part in her life. Will she still need me?  How will I ever get to know my son-in-law, we are worlds and languages apart? 

O Lord, show me the path, teach me thy way.  Help me to trust you dear Father and know that though the world all around me changes you are always the Same.

"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope, It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness"  Lamentations 3:21-23