{"id":1716,"date":"2010-08-18T23:47:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T07:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/08\/18\/weve-been-a-little-busy\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T23:47:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T07:47:56","slug":"weve-been-a-little-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/08\/18\/weve-been-a-little-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"we&rsquo;ve been a little busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> This is my sister.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMAG0137.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMAG0137\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMAG0137\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMAG0137_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we began our ministry in Victoria, she had just graduated from University. She took a job here in order to help us in our church. We had a handful of people. She came, not knowing how the Lord would lead, but she came knowing that the chances of finding an eligible Christian man might be slim.<\/p>\n<p>That was 24 years ago.<\/p>\n<p> <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Well, last year, the Lord brought a single Christian man to our church \u2026 about her age \u2026 like her, never married.<\/p>\n<p>When I first talked to this fellow on the phone, I wondered what the Lord might have in store. And this was it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMAG0142.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMAG0142\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMAG0142\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMAG0142_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, I had the privilege of conducting the ceremony, my brother preached the sermon, and my sister got married to one of our deacons.<\/p>\n<p>(That\u2019s some of the nieces and nephews in the picture also.)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been a little busy with all this, but all the guests have gone home now. Things are subsiding back to normal. I am so grateful to the Lord for bringing this marriage about.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"don_sig2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/don_sig22.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my sister. When we began our ministry in Victoria, she had just graduated from University. She took a job here in order to help us in our church. We had a handful of people. She came, not knowing how the Lord would lead, but she came knowing that the chances of finding an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[35,74],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-rG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}