Nutie & Tom Are Married at Sanibel Island Florida!

 

Nutie Melrose and Tom Keogh were married on Saturday January 24th on the beach at Sanibel Island in southwestern Florida.

Moana Andersen was the Bride's Maid, and Pat Machaud served as Best Man.  Michael Bagby officiated the wedding, and Laura did hair. Randy Smith offered a prayer over the couple. 

 

 

It was a joyous event that included the Bride's parents, entire brothers and sisters, children, and grandchild. 

 

 Tom's sons Tommy and Brian spoke and sang, along with Kirsten & Nick Melrose.

Nick and Matt walked Nutie down the sand isle.

 

 

Moana chanted a traditional Hawaiian opening.  

Harry, Brian, and Kirsten sang the processional.

 

 

It was a beautiful day with cool temperatures and blue sky

 

 

 

 

The Bride was beautiful, as usual!

 

Tommy read this description of the teamwork required in a Miskito marriage, after he told us all how proud he was of his father's perseverance through some hard times.

 Here it is below:

If you could imagine being a Miskito husband and wife, carrying your beanharvest home in a dugout canoe, you would see that you have a uniqueopportunity to experience the fragility of human life in a way necessary forobtaining a godly perspective on marriage, and a model for the kind ofcommunication necessary to guarantee its success.

Dried beans are the life of the Coco River, and the harvest represents more than 4 months of shared time and labor; it represents more than a family'

s sustenance for the next 12 months, but also seed for sustenance as far into the future as one can imagine. If these beans receive so much as a drop of water they will sprout, and will no longer be of use. Transporting them for 10 or 12 hours on the river in the middle of a rainforest, in a narrow dugout canoe whose gunwales are but a couple of inches above the waterline, is a precarious enterprise, with everything at stake.

The first thing you learn is that you are entirely dependent upon God to hold back the rain for the length of your journey; you realize that the Lord Himself is God, that it is He who has made US, and not we ourselves. We are HIS people, and the sheep of HIS pasture. It doesn

ʼt matter how skillfully you read the signs in the sky, plan the trip, or maneuver your craft, the entire journey is submitted for God's approval, to give or to take away. You learn dependence on Him and thanksgiving for His goodness.

Next, you become aware that the vessel you both share is very fragile. It doesn't take much to tip it to one side or the other. Overreaction, overcompensation by either party will swamp the whole enterprise. A very intimate, extra-verbal communication develops. You need to achieve a collective equilibrium, so you must learn to be intensely aware of and subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

Furthermore, you cannot have two heads, for competing you would surely capsize sooner or later, and lose everything. The man fashions a large, heavy paddle for himself and a smaller, lighter one for his wife. The man takes his place in the bow, since he will need to power stroke for a dozen hours without the added strain of having to steer. He is responsible for having vision, reading the current and alerting his wife of any logs or other obstructions hidden below the surface of the water which might overturn. From the bow he might also react to the presence of an alligator, dive overboard to catch a turtle, or get a fair shot at some game.

The wife takes the smaller paddle from her husband, acknowledging her smaller frame and thus submitting to his leadership. She takes her place in the stern which is actually the most comfortable place in a canoe with no seats, because the sloping bottom of the boat allows her to sit in a slightly elevated position. She is capable and knows exactly where they are going, so in giving her the honor of steering the vessel her spouse receives the benefit of her help.

Itʼs funny when you consider American culture, where taking the wheel is everything because a machine does all the hard work. Her husband needs her to work together with him in this position, allowing her control over the details of the trip. Steering is lighter work but certainly no less important than the husband's; because he loves her, he takes upon himself the work that will most probably cause him to cramp up a few times, but provide the power to get them to their destination. He gives himself up this way for his wife as Jesus gave Himself for the Church; she paddles also as she is able because she responds to her husband as she sees him straining in front of her. Her eyes are fixed upon him, and his upon the river.

The purpose of marriage is greater than the marriage itself. It is to bring us into the knowledge of the mystery of Jesus' love for the church in a very tangible way, and that we—husband and wife—would show forth that mystery causing God's salvation to come to many. Our marriage was borne out of a calling to serve native people in Nicaragua and Honduras; we would ask you to pray for our dependence on God's protection of our journey and attentiveness in our communication, so that with the oil of gladness we might succeed in carrying the seeds of Salvation to hurting people.

Nutie and Tom's children lined up with Rev. Maik and jointly declared Tom and Nutie to be Husband and Wife!

Tom's brother Jim represented Tom's four brothers.

  Moselle Bagby made a wedding cake!

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