details, details

when i met casey, her family had this beautiful rug in their entry way. on both ends there were tassels, many many tassels. i have this vivid memory of showing up at her house to find her sitting in the entry way with a hair pick, picking the tassels to make sure they were all pointing in the same direction. never in a million years would i have noticed if one was out of place, but casey did.

as she has grown over the past ten years of our friendship i've noticed that the details she is passionate about have shifted from the seen to the unseen. (thank goodness) she is more concerned with the matters of the heart, details of faith, and perfection that is only achieved by admitting you, and life, are not so perfect.

i'm not sure carson would have noticed the tassels. like me, i think he's a big picture kind of guy. but that doesn't mean he's not concerned with certain details, he is. his desire is for casey to be everything that God has called her to be. he longs to see her grow in patience, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, and self control, and maybe to not take herself so seriously.

knowing this about my friends, and being with them for the most precious of days, i saw the absolute perfection in the details. sure, the ceremony and reception were unbelievably gorgeous and nothing was out of place, but the relationships these two amazing people have in their lives were really what made it perfect.