Well, I am moving forward in my consideration of the weddings in my children’s future.
Weddings to, as of yet, unknown persons.
I have a unique potential opportunity, or non-opportunity, as the case may be.
Since I am the head of my family, ultimately everything stops with or starts with me, to some degree or another. So, I am tasked with the awesome burden of finding potential spouses for my children… not leaving it up to seemingly random ocurences that may or may not happen, but seeking to proactively engage in the process as a kind of search, with search terms. The children ultimately will select what pops up in the search results. But, I am to be the search engine. So, here it goes.
I will, over the course of the coming days and weeks, be documenting my process. I will also describe the results in these pages. Hopefully it will be an encouragement to others out there.
I am not approaching this process in pride an arrogance as much as circumspection and a measure of healthy fear, as I believe that all marriages are ultimately arranged by God, regardless, because I hold to the teachings of scripture as authoritative for life and practice.
First matter: I need to start developing more social ties, and those ties need to be oriented toward Christian relationships being formed with the parents of children who are of the same or close proximity ages as my children. I don’t know exactly where to start.
I want to avoid the internet dating options available. More on that later.
Others: Addressing costs of weddings, etc.
My wife and I have prayed for our children and our children’s spouses since before they were born. So, it’s not like it hasn’t been on our radar and under our consideration. It’s just that with the events of 2017, those years of previous work and effort were effectively obliterated and its only now that there is a renewed focus on moving forward in these areas out of a feeling of lost time and impending doom if there isn’t parental involvement, to a degree.