Our Heart’s True Treasure
This entry was posted on Friday, February 6th, 2009
From a couple
It was 1992 and after 2 years of saving-up a portion of our salaries, we finally had a Christian wedding officiated by one of our pastors. Our prayer then was just to have a simple wedding and that we will not ask or accept any financial help from our parents. They have already sacrificed enough for our education and we wanted to honor them on that day. God answered our prayers through our friends. We were referred to a couturier in Quiapo where we got a modest package for the whole entourage; someone shouldered the cost of the invitations; and friends working in Saudi Arabia at that time gifted us a pair of simple wedding rings.
Five years later, we prayed and got ourselves a new wedding band – something we would have bought then if we had enough money. So the previous wedding rings were kept in my wife’s drawer, “Maybe we can give it to our sons when they get older, and to be handed down through generations”, we sometimes thought and laughed.
We’ve been married for fifteen years now and whenever we see our first wedding rings, it never fails to remind us where and how we started our life together, our own family and our journey with God. Everything comes back – our prayer covenant and wedding plans, the day we moved into our own house, the birth of our children, being part of our Church and so many other things that God has allowed us to experience and cherish through the years . . . Surely, His love and faithfulness have kept us!
The thought of giving our ring for the Project Mosaic came to us not because the rings were expensive (we never had any idea of its real worth!), nor even for its beauty. We decided to give it as a thanksgiving. We are offering back a special part of our lives, our simple beginning, our love story with God, something of sentimental value – our heart’s treasure.
By now, we already know its worth. God immediately gave us unspeakable joy the moment my wife handed over our simple wedding rings for Project Mosaic. Come to think of it, what would be our relationship, our family, our eternity without the Love of God and His people in this Church? And that’s our Heart’s True Treasure!
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