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Wedding Rings Symbolize 5 Phases of a Couple's Spiritual Journey

 by Dane and Lindy Sorenson, FBC Lincoln Members

Our relationship began during the same period of time that I (Dane) was involved in a short-term spiritual journey discipleship group where we were learning more intensively about how God calls us to journey with Himself and others.  It was at this time that "The Call" to date Lindy became very clear to me through everything we had done together and the things I continued to learn about her.  I was able to see how all the things I had gone through before meeting her prepared me to be in a more committed relationship with her.  After we dated for a year we were engaged and eight months after our engagement we were married.  The spiritual journey phases played out very clearly during our dating and helped me to understand the appropriate times to initiate things.  Everything happened by God's timing as I looked to Him for answers, because I was clueless without Him.

When it came time to pick out our wedding bands it seemed only appropriate to design them with a symbol of the process we had gone through to get to the wedding day.  We chose to use five small diamonds spaced evenly around Lindy's band and five round dots or indentations on my ring which were made by drilling in with just the tip of a drill bit, so as not to go all the way through the ring.  The five diamonds or dots represent the five phases of our journey together as a married couple which will continue until our death.  We are going to spend most of our lives together in phase three of marriage which is "Cooperation" and truly this is the main component of marriage.  If we don't cooperate then we will have a very difficult time being married!

Not only do the rings symbolize our marriage journey but also the many other journeys that we will be going on together as a result of being married.  As phase four approaches our aging hands we will appreciate the meaning behind the rings, remember the journeys we have been on and thank God for joining us together. 

The decorations for our wedding reception also included some spiritual journey symbolism.  I happen to be a ceramic artist/potter and have been working on incorporating the spiritual journey paradigm into some of my pots.  For the table centerpieces I made small white vases with my unique style and had the five phases represented with chunks of clay spiraling up around the vases.  It's not very obvious that they are intended to represent the phases of the journey but I think it's also true that many people don't recognize the order with which God is working in their lives. To some all the events taking place seem to be random when in all actuality God is working very intentionally to bring people closer to Himself.  Now that Lindy and I have been married for 3 months we have come to know God in a deeper way and our journey together has been great!

An Update:  Dane and Lindy have accepted a call to teach English at a Christian school in Japan, beginning in July 2001.  

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