Today marks the fact that we have been married for 1 month or 43829 minutes! Praise God for small victories, especially these days. We are blessed to be able to share our journey with our friends and family and continue to ask God to have His way with us while bending towards His will. So you might be wondering why we have titled our blog with all these random numbers and why I have calculated the number of moments within one month?? Let’s review some of the events that have occurred in the past week to people within our reach:
Monday: Our good friends Gianina and Gary Holik welcome a healthy and precious baby girl named Adalyn! New Life.
Wednesday: Sweet and dear friends of our family lose a courageous cancer fight. Leah McHenry was 32 with a husband and small children. Sweet Surrender.
Thursday: Our other dear friends (who happened to catch the bouquet at our wedding) got engaged!! New Beginnings.
Friday: Marcus’ sister suffers but survives a hemorrhagic stroke at the age of 30!Unanswered Questions.
Life can change in seconds… Like that, things are different, smells are different, priorities are adjusted, and questions are unanswered. How on earth would we be able to survive and comprehend these unimaginable obstacles, challenges, and opportunities without fully trusting in God for understanding and direction? One scripture that we dwell on is Philippians 4:6, that directs us “to be anxious for nothing but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God and let the peace of God that passes all understanding guide your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus.…”, but how do we do that? How difficult is it to just surrender all worries, fears, and anxiety? Difficult is not even the word, but I ask, how COULDN’T we do this! He is the only one who can right all wrongs and deliver us from whatever we need... He is the one that give us PEACE. What a word, peace to know that He will provide, that He will heal, that He will provide answers, confidence direction…
Mrs. McHenry, Leah's sweet mother-in-love, sent out an email message a couple of days before Leah passed away with this profound observation:
“Eighteen inches, one half yard stick, .46 meters, they seem like such a short
distance, and yet this is the longest distance in the history of humanity.
Approximately the distance from the head to the heart, the distance between
unrest and peace, and most importantly the difference between knowing about God
and knowing God, no distance ironically looms longer nor shorter.”
How could we let 18 inches separate us from the peace the God delivers. Life changes so quickly. We pray every day that God builds a hedge of protection around our loved ones and that those who need Him seek Him. As we learned of the stroke, prayer warriors have been at work and the prayers have been felt by our family and more and we are thankful.
As we close this entry, we are thankful for life, we are thankful for the peace that He delivers through both occasions, and we are blessed to be able to witness His will. Amidst all of the craziness that the past week afforded us, we received our wedding photos (about 1300 of them (Thanks Cristina)) and were reminded about what God intended marriage to do. We have had countless people who attended and who didn’t attend around the country and the world tell us that our marriage touched their hearts in some way. Whether it is the renewal of their love for the spouse or an impetus to make positive changes in their lives or their families lives. PTL! Our wedding was not for us... it was to set the stage for what God wants us to do together! God’s presence was felt in that chapel and in that reception and He continues to dwell in the hearts of those it has affected and we are humbled by His grace and His favor.
In His Name,
The Brocks
The Brocks
PS. If you would like to view our photos, please visit http://www.pictage.com/. Search for the Lockhart-Brock Wedding under events. The event key is brocks
