| On July 25, Dino told me, "Believing that God has brought us together in His grace, I take you, Debra, to be my wife. Before God, our family and our friends, I promise to give myself wholly and willingly to you and you alone. I promise to love, honor, and protect you; and to lead you with humility, as the spiritual head of our home. I will continue to pursue you. I commit to you through times of blessing and times of emptiness, in joy and sorrow, in sickness and health, to love and cherish. I will be Christ’s hands and feet to you, as long as we both live."
Then I told him, "Believing that God has brought us together in His grace, I take you, Dino, to be my husband. Before God, our family and our friends, I promise to give myself wholly and willingly to you and you alone. I promise to nurture your leadership, humbly giving you respect to your face, behind your back, and in my private conversations with myself. I commit to you through times of blessing and times of emptiness, in joy and sorrow, in sickness and health, to love and cherish. I will be Christ’s hands and feet to you, as long as we both live."
And we told each other, our families, and our friends, "By His grace, we will dedicate our home to the Lord. We will take the Bible as our guide to life together. We will commit to investing in His church. We will set a standard within our home of hospitality, of loving what's pure, of joy, of laughter, of championing one another, and of humility." Let it be so- amen!
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