3-2-10: Lisa Michelle Swanson Was Born

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Lisa Michelle Swanson Was Born

This day about 1:05 am Eastern time, my wife celebrates her birthday. It's interesting for me to be with Lisa before and during her Birthday because it's the only day of the year she expects the world to revolve around her, it's the only day she truly beleives the joking comment she always says: "I'm kind of a big deal". She loves Birthdays, her own and making others feel special on theirs. It's humbling for me as I realize that I spend so many days expecting the world to treat me like it's my birthday where as Lisa spends 1 day with that attitude and the other 364 days of the year serving others and spreading smiles and joy every where she goes. Knowing her, I can only believe that He gives her the capacity to act so unselfishly and think so purely so much of the time....... This is when I use the word so many have used when they heard we got married: "WOW"...... Lisa is wonderful. I'm so thankful for her. I pray that I can treat Lisa like it's her birthday all the time as I believe she deserves it.

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Someday'59March 18, 2010 at 7:41 AM
Happy Birthday Lisa Butler. If you're spending the evening in a WalMart parking lot them maybe Mathew will let you go in and pick out something nice. :)
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Dawn BibbsMarch 18, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Oh my goodness, I think I'm gonna CRY!!! This has GOT to be THE sweetest post I've ever seen (ok, that's a stretch) but it's THE sweetest post I've seen in a VERY, VERY long time (how bout that?) Mathew, I am beyond thrilled that you see in Lisa what her friends (and family) have seen in her since we've known her. She ROCKS, doesn't she? Thank you SO much for loving my friend and for being with her to share HER special day. Happy Birthday again, Lisa! LOVE YA!!!
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We loved each other; we were thoughtful, prayerful and excited; we were ready to get married. We wanted to kick things off with an exciting trip of joy and adventure…..So, right now we are somewhere out West on a honeymoon with an undetermined length. While you won't watch us be pronounced man & wife, this blog is an attempt to share electronically the elements of a wedding that are important to us with our friends & family: (1) Expression of our commitment to God and our Marriage with His guidance. (2) Sharing our excitement about one another, and our adventures & thoughts as we begin our life together.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.......Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness..... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.

He answered, "Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning "made them male and female," and said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.

As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.