Marriage...in Trek Lingo:
I don't quite know how to explain marriage but the last two weeks I have been that; truly, authentically, grade A certified...married. It has been a concept I have been grasping. See, my mind does this thing called "grasping" and well it likes to grasp things that have boarders, that it has previous experiences to associate
with and slap onto it new experiences, sort of like trying on new cloths. Marriage though has been tough to grasp, no previous experiences to help really quantify what I have experienced so far. So, what I will do is do what I always do when I fail to find a proper analogy, use Star Trek (more to come also!). Before getting married I was on a starship that was orbiting a new planet, a planet that looks very fascinating. All my sensor sweeps could do was explain the surface but I had to go down to the surface.. marriage is going down the the surface and living there, until death! But it should take until death the truly survey this new world so I do understand the necessity of that. Also, 50% of other visitors have stayed on this world and 50% have left so I am assuming this planet comes with some pretty hostile territories (haha). I will say this so far: " He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord." Proverbs 18:22. All that I have seen so far I can not deny that it has been a blessing, a healing in wounds I did not know I needed to heal and a filling in gaps I did not think could truly be filled, by His grace. Okay, onward with the blogging!
Vegas:
So, Vegas was...HOT, not just sweaty and need to cool down hot but muy caliente kind of hot; it was the fast life that never slowed down. There is no time in Vegas there is just time to sleep and time to get up. All the venues, casinos, and res truants are designed to give artificial light and keep the normal sun out. So, there are often times when you do not know what time it is, it is always the now and the now is full of entertainment. This makes the roads and traffic in Vegas not so bad actually, people drive surprising slow and calm in Sin City..maybe it was because everyone is either waking up or needing to go to sleep. I think I can sum up Vegas by describing a man I met there called Cade. Cade reminded me of Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock minus 25 years of age and with a softer side. I met Cade while losing my pre-budgeted fun money (courtesy of my wife's planning) playing poker. He was a fun guy, just there for the fun....he always had a beer in his hand and was never truly here nor there but fully in the moment. He liked me and kept me in a few hands because he didn't want to see me leave.He would say "Star Trek (his nickname for me), you should fold...I have you beat bro but I don't want you to lose all your chips and leave, you're fun." I did fold and he would show his hand to prove it. Yea, Cade was Vegas. All though Vegas was fun I know it was full of loners, it was a blessing to get to experience the fun with someone else. I could not imagine wanting to go alone, I am sure that is how Vegas can kill ya....even if there was a Star Trek Convention there.
Lastly, Star Trek:
Yea so the last few days in Vegas meant getting our geek on, hard core! The Trek convention is surreal, yep that is the best way to explain it. Here is one moment I can share to sum it up: Alyssa and I were sitting in our seats at the main convention hall (that seated 5,000 +) and I look behind me to see four people completely dressed in Planet of the Apes costumes. They looked so legit that it scared me at first but they were just sitting there in their seats, just chillin. Planet of the Apes is not Star Trek but it doesn't matter, the convention is the place were these things are supposed to happen (and it happened a lot), we got a picture with them....of course. The convention was full of the bizarre but also full of some truly real people. No matter how odd or interesting these people were it was beautiful because they were being themselves and that made it fun to see. We may wear costumes next year.
A blessing:
Proverbs 18:22 still sums it up for our honeymoon...a blessing. I have this partner with me through it all. All that I experienced I experienced it "together" and that made it all so much better. We are both just getting to the surface of this marriage thingy but so far so good. Real life started Monday when we got back to Texas and we are both going forth into all the anticipated challenges and joys with memories of a fun past two weeks, love and our faith to propel us...together. Thank YOU and thank you for reading.
I don't quite know how to explain marriage but the last two weeks I have been that; truly, authentically, grade A certified...married. It has been a concept I have been grasping. See, my mind does this thing called "grasping" and well it likes to grasp things that have boarders, that it has previous experiences to associate
with and slap onto it new experiences, sort of like trying on new cloths. Marriage though has been tough to grasp, no previous experiences to help really quantify what I have experienced so far. So, what I will do is do what I always do when I fail to find a proper analogy, use Star Trek (more to come also!). Before getting married I was on a starship that was orbiting a new planet, a planet that looks very fascinating. All my sensor sweeps could do was explain the surface but I had to go down to the surface.. marriage is going down the the surface and living there, until death! But it should take until death the truly survey this new world so I do understand the necessity of that. Also, 50% of other visitors have stayed on this world and 50% have left so I am assuming this planet comes with some pretty hostile territories (haha). I will say this so far: " He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord." Proverbs 18:22. All that I have seen so far I can not deny that it has been a blessing, a healing in wounds I did not know I needed to heal and a filling in gaps I did not think could truly be filled, by His grace. Okay, onward with the blogging!
Vegas:
So, Vegas was...HOT, not just sweaty and need to cool down hot but muy caliente kind of hot; it was the fast life that never slowed down. There is no time in Vegas there is just time to sleep and time to get up. All the venues, casinos, and res truants are designed to give artificial light and keep the normal sun out. So, there are often times when you do not know what time it is, it is always the now and the now is full of entertainment. This makes the roads and traffic in Vegas not so bad actually, people drive surprising slow and calm in Sin City..maybe it was because everyone is either waking up or needing to go to sleep. I think I can sum up Vegas by describing a man I met there called Cade. Cade reminded me of Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock minus 25 years of age and with a softer side. I met Cade while losing my pre-budgeted fun money (courtesy of my wife's planning) playing poker. He was a fun guy, just there for the fun....he always had a beer in his hand and was never truly here nor there but fully in the moment. He liked me and kept me in a few hands because he didn't want to see me leave.He would say "Star Trek (his nickname for me), you should fold...I have you beat bro but I don't want you to lose all your chips and leave, you're fun." I did fold and he would show his hand to prove it. Yea, Cade was Vegas. All though Vegas was fun I know it was full of loners, it was a blessing to get to experience the fun with someone else. I could not imagine wanting to go alone, I am sure that is how Vegas can kill ya....even if there was a Star Trek Convention there.
Lastly, Star Trek:
Yea so the last few days in Vegas meant getting our geek on, hard core! The Trek convention is surreal, yep that is the best way to explain it. Here is one moment I can share to sum it up: Alyssa and I were sitting in our seats at the main convention hall (that seated 5,000 +) and I look behind me to see four people completely dressed in Planet of the Apes costumes. They looked so legit that it scared me at first but they were just sitting there in their seats, just chillin. Planet of the Apes is not Star Trek but it doesn't matter, the convention is the place were these things are supposed to happen (and it happened a lot), we got a picture with them....of course. The convention was full of the bizarre but also full of some truly real people. No matter how odd or interesting these people were it was beautiful because they were being themselves and that made it fun to see. We may wear costumes next year.
A blessing:
Proverbs 18:22 still sums it up for our honeymoon...a blessing. I have this partner with me through it all. All that I experienced I experienced it "together" and that made it all so much better. We are both just getting to the surface of this marriage thingy but so far so good. Real life started Monday when we got back to Texas and we are both going forth into all the anticipated challenges and joys with memories of a fun past two weeks, love and our faith to propel us...together. Thank YOU and thank you for reading.
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