Daily Fast Fuel: wedding

A Legg By Any Other Name

I was 13 when Charles and I started dating. He was a great guy then, and still is.

The problem was his last name.

Legg.

“If we got married my name would be Debbie Legg. [long pause] Nah, that’s not going to work.”

I know, right? You can literally hear the laughter from heaven. Picture with me The God of Angel Armies, one hand pointing toward me, the other one slapping His knee, saying, “BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Just you wait, My Child, just you wait.”

Seven years later I married Clinton Legg (no relation).

Charles and his fiancée, Valerie, decided the “coincidence” was fun enough to graciously invite us to their wedding. We spent the reception being introduced as The Leggs Who Were Not Related.

Of course, being me, I had to clarify and add, “That’s correct! We’re the right Leggs.”

Ya just can’t make this stuff up.

God has continued to use me as a source of laughter.

“Let’s make city girl Debbie a farmer’s wife!” (I have enough material to write a sitcom but they already made Green Acres)

“Let’s give her a second Miracle Baby! So what if she is 37?” (Covering the gray hair alone is gonna cost me a fortune)

“Debbie, I have the perfect name for your production company—Talk Your Legg Off.” (It doesn’t mean I always do, only that I can)

Stay tuned. Maybe His next adventure for me will be called Pulling Your Legg...

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Thursday, July 17, 2014 | Read more...

A Simple Vow

Choreographed first dances. Save the Date cards. Special flowers honoring the mothers. Wedding planning today is more complicated that it was when I did it 25 years ago.

There’s an awful lot of “To Do” to say “I Do.” Is it all necessary?

My early religious background included many meaningful things, but also things I had to wade through or stumble over. Was all of it necessary?

Like Martha in Luke 10 we tend to be worried over many things when only a few are needed. Really, all you have to have for a wedding are a license, vows, and someone to officiate. To follow Jesus you need a repentant heart, a decision to make Him your Savior and Lord, and to be baptized.

Honestly, it’s the simplicity of the plan of salvation that almost tripped me up. “Surely there must be more to it. It can’t be that easy.”

But it is. That’s the genius of Gospel. So simple that anyone, and everyone, can take those few steps, make those few arrangements, and become the Beloved Bride of the Prince of Peace.

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Thursday, June 05, 2014 | Read more...

The Wedding Planner (Reprise)

“There has been a slight change of plans.” When pulling together a wedding, good news rarely follows this announcement. As in the case of my wedding: There has been a slight change of plans. Instead of waking up healthy on your wedding day, you will have a fever of 101 and case of laryngitis so fierce that you will barely be able to croak out “in sickness and in health” when asked to do so, thus causing the entire congregation to laugh at the irony. Or in the case of my friend’s wedding a few weeks ago: There has been a slight change of plans. Instead of enjoying a long and lovely reception along the water, a sudden storm will roll in with a wind so strong it will very nearly rip the tent off of the dock causing all your guests to rush inside for safety, half of them in fancy clothes and looking like drowned rats.

Or how about in the case of Mary? There has been a slight change of plans. Instead of approaching your wedding day above reproach, you will be pregnant. The whole arrangement will be on the up and up, of course, being God’s child and all, but no one except you and Joseph will know that with certainty.

How about in the case of the Church? Yes, the church. We are the bride of Christ. This whole schmegegge is about approaching a Wedding Day. Or didn’t you know that? Try this on for size: There has been a slight change of plans. Instead of a faith journey in which you find yourself singing “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, everything’s going my way”, you’re gonna suffer. You may not have enough money. You and your loved ones may not always be healthy. You may even lose one before you’re ready to. As part of your engagement to the King, you will be asked to you love your neighbor, even if they beat or berate you because they disagree with you.

Any number of “change of plans” may be announced during our engagement. But not to worry, the Wedding Planner has got it all under control. Christ wants everything to be just perfect for our Big Day. Here’s some Fast Fuel for thought: The pre-wedding plan-changing may all be part of the preparation in the first place.

“And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.” – 1 Peter 5:10

(Originally posted October 18, 2011)