Romance: Finding Your Song

Do you and your special someone have a song?

One that sets your heart aflutter every time you hear it?

Gwynly and I do. And it’s not your ordinary song.

It’s a hymn. But not just any hymn.

The one played as the recessional at our wedding.

We didn’t have a song before that. Since Gwynly is from the 60s and I’m from the 70s, we like different kinds of music.

But when we strolled out of the church arm-in-arm on our wedding day with the strains of Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee playing, it become Our Song.

To this day, I mush out whenever I hear it.

When I watch the videotape of our wedding and hear it, I shed tears of joy.

When I heard it played by our daughter’s fifth-grade band years ago, complete with a few squeaks and squawks, I got misty-eyed.

When our hymn leader announces it in church, I lean into Gwynly, he wraps his arm around me, and I get weepy.

I love that Our Song isn’t really ours. It’s the Lord’s. We were joined in His Name, and our first steps as man and wife were taken while this hymn proclaimed our love for our Savior.

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What is your song, and how did it come to be?