The doors opened in the back of the church, and there she stood. My beautiful bride, ready to walk down the aisle to my right. We were moments away from vowing before God, family, and friends to love and cherish one another through every circumstance life would throw our way “until death do us part.” My pastor often says that half of the wedding vows are unnecessary. We don’t often struggle with the “better” part of “for better or for worse,” nor the “richer” part of “for richer or for poorer,” nor the “in health” part of “in sickness and in health.”

Loretta and I had no idea on June 20, 1992, what crazy twists and turns the Lord had in store for us, though the months leading to our wedding might have given us so...

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