Kristi Cochran is now Mrs. Sluka and that is so beautiful. I think that the whole wedding/marriage thing makes sense to me in a new way after this weekend, my first bridesmaid experience. It was so cool that they were willing to go through that entire weekend, all the money and stress related to it, just so that they could stand up as examples of what love is supposed to look like between two of God's children. They were both so happy, and the wedding was gorgeous.
Weddings have been on my mind the last month as I was preparing myself to lose Kristi in the relational context I'm used to, since she is obviously not going to be living with us on R3 next year. And I kept thinking how many times the New Testament talks about our relationship with Christ as one between a bride and a groom. I guess it is the closest earthly picture we have of that beautiful union, and I think that Kristi and Phil's wedding was such a cool celebration of what we have to look forward to one day with Jesus.
And Kristi was so beautiful she made me cry...Seriously. And I got to eat sweets for the first time in weeks. Chocolate Rasberry Truffle from Cheesecake factory, an embarrassing bachelorette cake make by Skeyse's mom, and Kristi's dad's famous cake at the wedding. Now that it is okay to eat sweets again, that seems to be the only thing I want to do. I think I'll give myself this week and abstain from them for at least another month. I was feeling pretty healthy before I started eating all of that crap again.
The beautful Nichole came home with me after the wedding and got to sleep a few nights in the OC, and that is basically all we did, being as tired as we were from the decorating, the sleeping in strange beds, and the walking around all day in riduculously uncomfortable shoes. But it was really good to have that little bit of goodbye time together. Because yes, two of my friends are leaving me in the fall. I think Nichole driving away from my house was even sadder to me than Kristi getting herself tied to a man forever (just joking, my lovely friend) because I'll still see Kristi practically every day and Nichole is going to be practically gone from my Huntington life. It is really sad, but beautiful at the same time because this whole thing is such a good fit for her. And she's getting married next summer and I'm really excited for that.
I am rambling so much that I almost forgot to talk about the third point in my title. I'm sick. My allergies have been pretty mad at me the last few days and it has been hard to breathe. But I think its been a blessing, because I took Monday afternoon off to got to the Dr. and rest, and that enabled me to go serve at the Community Kitchen in Bloomington with two girls in the youth group. They called and needed a third, so I took an advil for my headache and went to clean and serve meals to people for a few hours. Everyone there is so amazingly nice and it felt good to be giving people a good meal. And it was amazing because I didn't cough or sneeze the entire time I was there, which I was kind of afraid was all I was going to be doing. Yay, God is good.
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