![]() ![]() Shai and I knew we wanted children, if the Lord would provide, and more than anything we wanted to raise them in a loving, God-filled home. I went from Wingo to Linne and I was now, for the first time, part of a married household. But I was hoping that grace and forgiveness could make up for those many years in which I had been left to walk down the aisle of my life alone. He was there to give me away but had not been there to raise me. I love watching a father walking his daughter down the aisle because of all it represents: a father who has walked along his daughter in life, protecting and shepherding her until he places his precious child into the hands of a man who will take equally good care of her. ![]() He was the beaming father by my side, handing off his 27-year-old daughter to Shai on one of the most important days of my life. ![]() Despite being a Jehovah’s Witness who does not often step foot in a Christian church, he gladly came. Among the invitations that went out, I invited my father to walk me down the aisle. I married Shai four months after he got down on one knee. The iron sliver I thought I’d die from.” (Li-Young Lee) I watched his lovely face and not the blade. ![]() My father recited a story in a low voice. ![]()
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