wedding toasts
I think one of the hardest things in life is to find the balance between being completely fulfilled by God and allowing yourself to be filled by people too. I think I have a twisted perception about how this works. I feel like it's ok to need people - its ok and a good thing to know that you are loved by other people. I just don't know where the balance is between needing people and being ok knowing that God loves you.
posted by jmjana @ 5:52 PM
2 Comments:
At 11:35 PM,
Anonymous said…
why is this entitled wedding toasts?
At 11:05 AM,
jmjana said…
At Jill Wit's wedding this weekend in my toast I said, Scott needed Jill and Jill needed Scott. Which I TOTALLY see and feel like is valid. But I feel like it's not valid because do we really need people? Or is God all we really need? Or does God use people to give us the fulfillment and love that we do need? What's our role in all of this? I feel like in previous dating relationships (when I was a Christian) I would hold back and try and convince myself to not find fulfillment in the other person. I think that it was good that I did that, even though I didn't always do it successfully, BUT I also didn't allow them to love me because I was so worried about getting fulfillment from the wrong thing - like it was bad or tainted or something. But, God wasn't pleased when he saw that man was alone and CREATED a companion for him. God doesn't like us to be alone and I see that in marriage and in friendships. But where's the balance? Is there one? I think I've tried to stand alone for so long that I forget what it's like to allow someone to love me. I think I just wrote about that - or maybe I've just been thinking a TON about it lately.
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