HAPPY GOLDEN BIRTHDAY TO MY SWEET SISTER!!!!! The speech I gave on their wedding day...I was so cold & emotional (I know I know), that I literally skipped parts so I will share it here for all to read...if you want. Its long....no shocker there either... -------- 1st off I want to say Thank you for coming. I know Benjamin & Tara truly appreciate you making the sacrifices to celebrate their love with them. So thank you all for being here. For those of you who know my sister you already know she is a firecracker, full of life, full of laughter, always up for a good time, a girl who loves hard & tries to be funny & often fails. Benjamin has already perfected his sympathy laugh...so good for him;) To be honest I havent always seen my sister in this light. I havent always loved to be in her presence & I havent always approved of her choices. However, thanks to Benjamin I now see my sister for who she is & love every bit of my Tara Lynn. I enjoy her every thought, yes every thought, because she thinks out loud. I enjoy her every emotion, however extreme & random it may be because she is so passionate & transparent. & I enjoy her tender heart, because I know it is genuine & real. Last Fall (2012), I got a call from Tara, an extremely excited Tara, telling me she was engaged. My reaction ----- silence. She had just recently started dating this fella, how on earth could he have proposed?!?!? My Dad explained it best, he said Linds, if you & your sis were to go sky diving, you would be checking each clasp, examining each thread, making sure your jumping guide had a good full nights sleep & a solid breakfast. Tara is the type to just jump! She simply trusts someone will catch her. A pretty profound analogy. Tara falls hard in love, trusts without question & loves with true confidence. She is ever faithful the Lord will provide. For a time our sweet, vivacious Tara was a little lost. Going down an empty path. As her big sister, I prayed everyday, sometimes multiple times a day that the Lord would bring her back to us & that he would place a good man, her perfect man into her life. I prayed & cried & cried & prayed some more. It seemed the Lord was ignoring me...oh yee of little faith was I because to my prayers end came Benjamin. A man who was able to calm my sister in a way I had only seen Jeff (my husband) do. But this man, this man of Taras, had a soft, gracious way about it & could tend to the extreme Tara by simply holding her hand! This man had something in his eyes for Tara that I had never seen before. A love so genuine & a man so in tune to Tara that he knows what she needs even before she does! Benjamin was perfect...so of course he would propose right off the bat....why the heck wouldnt he! Benjamin you are my blessing. You are the light that gives Tara her sparkle! Ive never looked at my sister the way I do now & its because of you. Your dedication to her & her happiness, your never ending Tara what do I need to do to make you happy? ... no one else does it for Tara like you do & I will never be able to Thank you enough! But shes yours now.........GOOD LUCK! :) I encourage you to lean on the Lord from here on out. You cannot do marriage well without his presence. Tara, stay grounded (as much as you can), allow Benjamin to lead you. Keep him focused, always build him up no matter what & keep Christ as the center of your life. They say you should toast truth, beauty & love. So I toast to Benjamin, a man who is true in all he does. To my beautiful little sister Tara, who is beautiful inside & out & to a love I so longed & prayed for for my extraordinary Tara. Keep loving hard little sis, we could all learn a lot from the way you love. ~Linds
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:37:10 +0000
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