Friday, December 28, 2007

Our 5th

Happy Anniversary to us! 5 years ago on Dec. 28th, 2002, I married my best friend. I love our life and who we've become. We continue to build our relationship, have fun together, and bless our marriage. I thought by now we'd have a couple of little ones running around, but God has his plan for us, and we know we'll have them one day. For now, we are enjoying each other and our Jack boy! I can't believe how fast these 5 years have gone by! Crazy! Below is our wedding sermon from our friend and pastor, Steve Blair. Enjoy! It makes me smile each time I read it....

Wedding Sermon for “The Laughlins”

  • "So this is it. This is what all your crusades for the Holy Matrimony have led up to. All of your dates where you have searched for the perfect mate have led up to this moment, where the two of you say that there is something here that used to be missing.
  • Kasey and Michael, you have both come into this wedding with your own set of memories. You each bring stories of growing up in loving homes surrounded by families and friends that have supported you. Stories of Christmas mornings, soccer games, skiing, and skeeball that have all brought you here and made you who you are. You have come into this wedding, before these people as two individuals and in some magical, divine way you will leave as one flesh. With all of your past memories formed as two individuals, you will leave to form and share all of your future memories together. You will leave to bask in the intimacy of marriage. The intimacy that Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians when he says:“Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy or boast. It is not rude. It is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs."
  • Or in other words . . . Love is watching someone sleep for hours dying to see what they are going to say next. Love is riding together in a car in a comfortable silence. Love is always having to say you’re sorry even for things you did not do. Love is remaining faithful to someone even when the days are poorer than they are richer; when there is more sickness than health. Love is waking up at 3 A.M. together if you have to so you can watch Team USA play in the World Cup. Love is knowing all about a person and still be willing to say “I will love you with all that I am,‘From This Moment On’” And that is what you came here to do. That is what all of us have come to watch you do. To join together in Holy Matrimony and become the preview of an old married couple. To accept the challenge that many here have also accepted of balancing one checkbook, of calling ahead when you are going to be late, or better yet . . . calling ahead to make sure that it is alright to leave in the first place. Mike, it is to accept the challenge to never let her head hit the bed without your hand behind it. Kasey, it is to accept the challenge to laugh even when you see the joke coming a mile away or even when the jokes don't make sense, because he actually likes them better that way. A wise man once said “Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God” and as a young married man, which I am not, I think he is right. I pray that the laughter that I have heard from you will only be a taste of all the joy you will have as husband and wife. I pray that your marriage will be filled with laughter as you tell each other jokes whenever you can. Jokes like: “If a husband says something in the forest and his wife is not there to hear it, is he still wrong?” Or jokes about a pet bird on a beach... You know what I am talking about. I pray that the two of you will make between you a set of inside jokes where a simple glance and a smirk tells the world that there is something that all of us are missing because we do not have what you have. A special brand of love that bears both of your names, personalities, and senses of humor no matter how dry they might be.Together you now are and together you will always be. Loving each other like it was going out of style. Your marriage will be a long and happy one blessed by the God whom you two serve. And even when things do not go perfectly, and they will not, you can know that everything will be alright because God’s love will lead you through and God’s love never fails. You have many challenges ahead of you. To have and to hold. To love and to cherish and I believe you can do it. Your marriage will be filled with Love, Joy, and Laughter because your First and Last Crusade for the Holy Matrimony has been accomplished. And knowing the two of you, I can proudly say that “You Have Chosen Wisely.” For Kasey and Mike, the soon-to-be- Laughlins . . .Thanks be to God. Amen" Happy 5th Anniversary Mike. I love you!

4 comments:

Nicole said...

Happy Anniversary!

Sarah Beth and David said...
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Ferris Family said...

Happy Anniversary! I can't believe it's already been 5 yrs.

Ryan said...

congrats! hope you had a great anniversary getaway.