QUESTION: Son Gets Married Tomorrow Night
 

To me, though my little ones are a ways from marriage, it should be of no relative difference.

The key is who they marry and whether or not God is central in the marriage, not if and/or when.

I would be just as uneasy if my son married someone sub par as if my daughter did.

I think that you'll be at ease if and when your daughter finds the right man, especially if you pray about it instead of going with carnal feelings. Encourage her to pray about it and be sure.

My parents wanted me to marry some nice little UPCi girl after my fiancé and I broke up and I returned to the Lord. They thought my fiancé at the time was a worldly waste for good pentecostal stock such as myself and that she would drag me down and back into the world.

Fear is a devastating thing...if you follow it.

I prayed and fasted and I knew that the Lord was with me in my decision to pursue my former fiancé in a whole new light.

You never can tell what the Lord will do with what seems to be a sub par situation. We've been married for five years now and a better wife, mother and Godly woman you'll be hard pressed to find.

Her parents were just as uneasy for just the opposite reasons, yet now they are very pleased as our family's lifesong gives glory to God and a strong witness of what he can do with a situation that looked hopeless. Of all their sons and daughters, we are the least of their worries now and they'll be the first to tell you that.

If I boast, it of Christ, we were just willing to allow Him to have His way. We could never have done this on our own.

So, fret not and pray about it. God has no less of a plan for your daughter than for your sons.

I dont even have a daughter, and the thought makes me crazy.

this much I do know.

A Son in Law is the worst animal on the face of Gods green earth.

I do my dead level best to fullfill that role.

Yeah, you might even come to like the guy. My inlaws and me are close, and they don't even claim to be Christian. How much more should Christians be able to overcome? Is there Power in Christ, or is it just Sunday conversation?

Yeah, I do also feel that way.

I don't have a daughter but I do have two boys...

My Boys are like tupperware... I treasure them...use them.. their tough and pliable...and can bounce back...

if I had a daughter I would think her like fine China beautiful and tender...

I would think it hard to give her up after all the love and time I spent protecting her... imo..

I had two daughters and a son that have all married.

I have two great son-in-laws, but it's my daughter-in-law that worries me a little. She's sweet, but she comes from a hippy family and is odd sometimes in how she approaches things!

Anyways.........start saving up, Rev, because the daughter's wedding will get expensive!!!!!! (Brides parents pay for the wedding)

You get by cheap with boys when it comes to weddings! :D

I'm the same way about my two boys.

I tried to treat my only daughter like "fine china," as you suggested that you would. Then one day she rose up and told me that things were to be otherwise. Now I just follow orders.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are...:ursofunny

I have two young daughters, and maybe one on the way. We are going to raise them to be nothing but ladies...but precious little indoor girl china dolls they are not. They play hard in the yard, work hard in the garden. They aren't afraid of getting their hands dirty, or bloody. They've yet to kill their own meat, but they don't blink or get weak in taking an animal apart through to setting it on the table in world class fashion and flavor.

They are the prettiest girls ya ever saw, smart and educated at home beyond their institutionalized peers. We are going to raise them to be the rare jewels that possess experience a wide variety of skills and tasks that will help insure their and their own future family’s survival in a Godly fashion.

We believe that if you raise them right in the fear of the Lord with a pretty little head on their pretty little shoulders then no punk chump will get the one over on them or us. They'll smell little boys wanting to be men from a mile away by the time they are of age.

China is pretty...in a china cabinet. Both are too delicate to be functional, but we haven't much humor for what is generally of the chinese way anyhow.

We are more akin to what can be made pretty out of American Iron....stainless steel for example..pretty, sharp, functional, durable, long-lasting...with hearts of pure gold.

If I even tried to treat them like fine china, I'd get the same retort you got and then they'd laugh because they would know I'm being a joker. They are no nonsense girls already, yet they know how to have good clean fun.

To God be the Glory.

Is it then that the men that are afraid of letting their daughters go are afraid of their daughters falling for someone just like themselves? Or just the opposite?