Aren’t you glad God never makes mistakes. He never misspeaks. He never misunderstands. So while we humans struggle with such fallacies from time to time, He doesn’t. At the same time, in His marvelous sovereignty, God uses the fallacies of man to teach and train his children along their journey of progressive sanctification. Such is the case today. There was a misunderstanding regarding Fred’s interview date, and it is actually scheduled for July 28.
That’s significant for several reasons. First and most obvious, it adds to the wait time for Fred’s visa. The Lord knows how much I need to learn to depend and wait on Him, and He has graciously given me more time to do so.
Second, this affects many – okay, nearly all of the planning aspects for the wedding. While the end-of-June interview date put pressure on our tentative wedding schedule, it still left time to arrange and take care of various details. The corrected end-of-July date, a mere few weeks before the wedding, does not.
On one hand, all this makes me want to laugh. After all, I’ve always been a haphazard last-minute girl who somehow manages to perform (relatively) well under pressure…um, you all don’t need to agree so readily on that point…anyway, it’s only fitting then that my wedding should be so, too.
On the other hand, I have to laugh, too, when I think of my mother. (Poor dear.) You see, thus far in the wedding planning process, I have been told, “No,” several times. (The key word seems to be liability.) Flexibility has already taken on new meaning for me and my family this year, but we will, no doubt, plumb its depths in the month to come; and now I have all the more reason to be creative! Things are going to get interesting around here. (There’s a reason this blog is entitled, “The Adventures of Fred and Fern”!)
With that said, let the festivities commence!