A friend took some flak from her brother recently because of the way her fiancé signed the card on some flowers he sent: “yours.” The world doesn’t like this wording, either, because people are not possessions so it is believed that we can’t “own” each other. But, in a sense, my husband and I mutually belong to each other. This is not offensive to us; rather, it is something in which we take great comfort! We believe that there are no accidents – that God has everything planned out – so we believe that we were created for each other.

Thus, it is a comfort to me to realize that Michael is “mine,” and a comfort to him to know that I am “his.” It doesn’t matter what he does or doesn’t look like, what his strengths and weaknesses are; he has one trait which supercedes all others: he’s mine. In fact, the inscription inside our wedding bands says “MINE,” along with a Scripture reference each. The Scripture reference inside my ring is Isaiah 43:1. Isaiah 43:1 talks about our belonging to the Lord, saying,

But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.’