10 days ago our youngest son got married. The last of our 4 kids to walk down the aisle. It was a bittersweet moment for me. Happy because we love the woman he chose to be his partner in life. And because we are excited for them to start this journey. We celebrate their commitment to each other and their excitement of starting a life together as husband and wife.

Sad because this is the last wedding of our kids. We are firmly out of this stage of life. We have both feet now in the next stage of life.

I love planning weddings. The dress shopping and scouting out venues. Planning the decorations and the food. Creating bridal bouquets, bridal showers, and cake tasting. All of it.

But my favorite part of all of it by a mile is seeing the bride walk down the aisle and the first moment ​when the bride and groom lock eyes. How focused they stay on each other, never losing eye contact ​with each other. Big, silly grins from ear to ear on both their faces. Looking only at each other as the ​bride progresses down the aisle. And in that moment my prayer for my son and his bride is that they ​will always look at each other that way. That they will always stay focused on each other, never losing ​sight of the other, always moving towards each other. I pray that my son will stay standing solid and ​firm, like a lighthouse, so that even in the darkest of times his wife will know he is there, never ​wavering in his commitment to his family.

How many marriages get off track because we lose that focus? We get busy with our careers and ​parenting, kid's activities, that next promotion. We stop seeing each other. We stop looking for our ​spouse. We stop walking towards each other.

How amazing would marriage be for all of us if like the bride and groom, we kept our focus on each ​other and even more so if we had that same focus for Christ in our marriage? Knowing that HE is our ​lighthouse, always moving toward Him, never losing sight of the one who loves us most. Keeping Christ ​front and center in our personal life as well as in our marriage. God has a purpose for our lives and for ​the homes where we spend those lives.

I pray that they will build their home together with love, wisdom, patience, and understanding.

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. (Hebrews 3:4)

I pray that God will give them wisdom and understanding in their relationship and the many decisions ​they will be called on to make over the course of their life together.

But most of all I pray that they are aware that each and every day their marriage ultimately belongs ​to the Lord and that they will fulfill the purpose God has for them.

We have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge

of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. (Colossians 1:9)

Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve … but as for me and my house,

we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15)