Well Seth and I have made it five beautiful years! It is hard to believe just how time flies and just how much God has blessed the first five years of our marriage. I married a wonderful, kind, strong Christian man who believes in me and cares for me. I thank the Lord everyday for him. He is the spiritual leader of our family. Having a good marriage seems to be a rarity in today's age so I am thankful for the blessing that the Lord has given us. So, Happy five year anniversary! I look forward to the next fifty!
July 12 is also a special day because it is my mom and dad's wedding anniversary. We got married on the same day to honor them. So happy 27th anniversary mom and dad! I love you!
27 comments:
Congratulations on the first five!!!! You made a beautiful bride, short hair and all. I thought that was Drew Berrymore (sp?) in that one picture. I'm kind of curious to see if anonymous has found something wrong with your wedding dress, or veil, or maybe that bouquet of flowers is in some way immoral. HA HA!!!
Happy 5! I always remember yours because Shawn and I will be having ours next Friday as well. Isn't it crazy that we have been married for 5 years! Its' so exciting! LOL...I might get my hair cut shorter for my anniversary! Wink, wink! Love ya girl!
Emily Crossley
may i ask where you got married dear? it is quite a lovely place.
The obsession continues.....
What's really amazing is that someone actually thinks when they visit a public forum they are really anonymous. Did you ever hear of an IP address?
At first I thought someone was just having fun with you guys, but as the cyber jousting continues it has been elevated to a new level.
Whats even more amazing is when of all the forums you could pick, you pick Google - of which it is nice to have an associate who is a forums moderator.
Have your fun for the next 3 days....your mockery is about to become public knowledge.
I'm assuming the above anonymous is a new anonymous and not the same old self-righteous anonymous. Nevertheless, you make a good point. No one is truly anonymous. Anyway you can help us out with revealing the "self-righteous anonymous'" identity would be greatly appreciated "new anonymous."
yes that would be appreciated. Thank you "new" anonymous.
Now see that's just wrong *in my opinion*. The person said they were sorry. We need to forgive them and move on like Darin said. They're gone and I think we need to show them God's love and mercy and just move on and forget it. I usually just read blogs but this is a case of someone being repentant and I wanted to speak up. Hope you don't mind.
Wow Amanda, You had a beautiful wedding! Our anniversary is July 10th. I like reading your blog because you are so honest about heartfelt things and Gods love just shines from you!! Don't spend time worrying about those that have so much time on there hands....
yeah we should probably just let it go, JC. It is hard though when someone is so hurtful. Of course, you can comment. You can comment all day long as long as it is done with respect. Take care JC. And, thanks for your opinion.
Holy Crap! I say we expose this person who is ignorant. I can't wait to meet her. All the mean and nasty things that were said are just amazing to me. How sad she must be. Think about it, she can't have many Christian friends or any friends. She is dying to be loved. Her family life must be miserable and how low do you have to go to rip on others. What a coward! Amanda, I think you have handled this coward in such a sweet way. I would not be so sweet. Anyone who knows me knows I would love to address this woman face to face. I can't wait to find out who she is, so please hurry on finding out. By the way, God has blessed me with one child and many (12)foster children, two who may be ours for good someday. Amanda, you'll make a great mom too someday. I look forward to seeing your children. It's sad to see how a jealous person sounds, isn't it? Keep doing what your doing, and remember, you are holy. God Bless Sweetie!
I just want to say that I love all of you as well! I'm so glad that we have so many kind and wonderful people at Harvest. The loving comments on here far out weigh the mean ones. Even though the comment made about my weight was uncalled for - anonymous - you have no idea about it anyway. I weigh less now then when I got pregnant. I have lost all of my preg weight and almost 15 more! You have no right to say those things! You don't know me either! I will pray for you again and hope that you are truely sorry for what has been said. I for one, do not apprecaite it!!!!!! I feel I'm aloud to express my frustration.
Emily
This is shocking. You guys are all talking about how much you love each other and give "God's Grace" to strangers, yet you shout "CRUCIFY HIM!" to one who offends you. Can't you just shrug it off? Can't you just let it go? Are you really that easily offended? I'm not trying to pick a fight here, but come on. Let's actually SHOW them God's love. They said they were sorry. Can we just forget it?? Or are we going to demand his/her body and crucify him/her for crying out loud!! The love of Christ overcomes all this petty stuff. Compared to eternity, what does all this mean?
I agree. I've been reading all this at a distance and now the ones that have been graceful and kind are now being rabid dogs!
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
— Hebrews 12:1–2
j.c. Let's be accurate and honest with our comments. Where did you see any of us calling for this person to be "crucified" as you put it. The fact that we would like to know who this person is doesn't mean that we're going to lynch him/her. Come on! It is certainly not "petty" when someone damns others to hell for things that are clearly not sinful, such as the length of your hair. We are concerned simply because the positions this person takes are so far on the fringes of Christianity, if it can even be considered Christian at all. It is certainly very legalistic and self-righteous. And Carol, come on, rabid dogs? This type of inflammatory language is certainly not helping the situation either.
J.C. & Carol, calm down...we are not doing anything but wanting this coward to be accountable for her words. And you call that an apology? Give me a break! We would just like to give her a spiritual spanking. How can someone say what she said and not be held accountable. She said she didn't want to be hurtful, but yet tells people to go to hell? Looking forward to meeting the coward.
Emily, don't explain yourself to this coward. She is in bondage of legalism.
Anonymous, I suggest you come clean now with who you are before you are found out. I would love to talk face to face. You cannot attack people in such a manner that causes so much pain. Do you even realize the pain you have caused Amanda, Emily, Darin(My sweet husband), Scott and Margie??? You can't even imagine. We would all be willing to talk to you. Now is your chance. You have stirred up so much here. I don't believe the you even get what you have done.
All you guys are doing is defending yourselves. Seriously, WHERE is the Christian love here? It's getting absolutely ridiculous! A "spiritual spanking"?? Where is that in the Bible? I do think anonymous spoke abruptly when they said you guys were going "to hell", but sometimes I speak out of anger too! Don't you? I can't cast the first stone brothers and sisters. They said they were gone and they haven't commented yet. Why can't we just forget it? You guys are not the one for him/her to be accountable to, it's Jesus. We cannot "punish" them, that is up to God. You guys hold onto things, that's for sure. Wow.
One more thing, look at the post you guys are commenting on. It's Amanda's 5th wedding anniversary. I just wish all this junk was over, so we could move on. Why can't we forget it? Amanda, Emily, Margie, Scott, Darin, I'm calling you all here. Are you all that offended and hurt? Really? It's nothing the love of Jesus cannot look past?
Hey all, here is the situation. My blog has totally turned into a battle zone which I never ever wanted. If you notice,I made this post because I was excited about my Anniversary. This whole thing is becoming ugly and I strongly dislike it. Everyone is all fired up. I have to admit that I have been very hurt by some of these posts. I have been called ugly, a circus clown, trashy, unchristian and a whore. I have never felt so badly about myself. I was also told that God is keeping children from my husband because I am "living in sin". This craziness is so hurtful, but I AM NOT ANGRY. I am letting it go. Anonymous, you have hurt me, but I am letting it go. I am more sorry about the sadness that must encompass your life. As far as me being angry and ravenous, I am not. I was very upset about the comments to Emily. They were deep and hurtful. It is very difficult to hear comments that are just made in anger from people who claim to be Godly and believers. Here is the thing, we are all sinners. We have all fallen short of God's glory. I know I have and I also am working very hard to grow spiritually and to be a good example to others. I don't want my blog to be like this. I wanted it to be a place where I could talk to the world about my life. The issues we are debating here are not even relevant. This has gone way out of proportion. This site is not a place to rip on others, no matter how you may disagree with them. There is a tactful way to respond to everything. Sometimes I think people just make comments to try and stir things up and elicit anger. This site is not the place for that. I will not have my friends judged and bad things said about them. If you feel someone is in sin, the bible outlines the things that need to be done and that involves going through the church in a loving and not critical way. "Screaming" at each other and taking cheap shots is not appropriate. Therefor...NO MORE. I think I am going to enable the comment moderation feature so that I can start to monitor the comments for appropriateness. You guys that are on here reading, whether you comment or not, I love you and I am thankful for you. We need to love and support each other as believers.
In one sense JC you are correct. Ultimately this person will be accountable to Christ. In another sense, he/she is accountable to the body of believers that they choose to fellowship and worship with. And there is Biblical support for spiritual discipline or "spiritual spanking" if you will. The comments that he/she made to people within his/her local body of believers strike at the very heart of botherly unity and loving fellowship. Furthermore, since the comments are so legalistic we have the responsibility to weed out the error of legalism and deal with it. Of all the things that Paul and others spoke out against, I think a case could be made that they made their strongest rebukes against legalism and things that would deny the grace of God in Christ.
Well said, Amanda. Thank you for your friendship! I'm going to continue to pray for all of this to go away. Jesus is our Lord! Lets comment on that. Lets celebrate a marriage that has been together for 5 years in the eyes of our Lord! Have a great day everyone!
Congrats on 5 years! Your pictures are beautiful. Adam and I will be married for 8 on the 24th and I think I will follow your lead in posting some pictures - Adam will just LOVE it!
Holy cow! How crazy is this! The last time I checked, this post only had 4 comments now it's up to 22! Honestly, everyone, no I'm not hurt by anything "anonymous" said. I've had lots of comments like that on my blog and after a while you just get used to deleting the really bad ones and saying a prayer for the one who wrote it.
Amanda, HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! :) :) I hope it was wonderful! You and Seth make a great couple. Your wedding pics are absolutely beautiful! Have a wonderful, Jesus-filled weekend!
anonymous, we are having a woman's ministry event at the church at seven tonight. I would love it if you could come.
Amanda, I'm sorry about not coming tonight. We didn't get home until 8 and then I had to feed Madi and put her to bed. Seriously, wanted to try to come. We had the plans before I really realized that was tonight. How did it go? Please except my apology. I'm definitely going to come to the next womens night. I need to come to more of those! Thank you for asking me though. I didn't deliberatly not come! Love you! : )
Amanda,
I love that you put your wedding photos on here. You look so pretty. Lately I've been thinking we should celebrate marriage more. God created marriage to be good and for many of us it is good. Today in church I was thanking God for my wonderful husband of 21 years and for my marriage. Thank you for these beautiful images.
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