Behold!: Wedding Garments for a Bride and Groom to Be Worn Twice

By Mary Walmsley

In the car while driving away from the darkness of divorce, a woman experiences her first encounter with the living God. As it says in the Bible, when she didn't know what to say, the Lord put words in her mouth, and she was amazed! Thus began a wondrous journey in faith.

She found a job as the sole clerk in a small needlework shop. Surrounded by fabrics and threads plus daily contacts with enthusiastic customers, she was drawn into doing fine embroidery herself for the first time in her life. Encouraged by the success of her first piece, she began to plan a way to express with needle and thread her thoughts about God and marriage, and the wedding garments were conceived.

An angel appeared to the woman to reveal God's purpose for these garments, which purpose reaches far beyond anything she had in mind.

These garments have a role to play in God's plan for the health, success, and happiness of marriages in the future. They represent something new and something old-a new fashion for wedding attire in which both bride and groom wear complementary garments and an old tradition that both bride and groom wear their wedding garments twice, on the wedding day and also on the day of burial. Their message spans centuries and continents.

"I loved the allegorical format of Mary's latest book, Behold! It shares the biblical truths of the marriage covenant in a way that is easy to understand. Behold! will make a perfect gift for a newly engaged couple as well as an anniversary gift for those in long-standing marriages."-Eva

"This book opened my heart to God's heart and His original plan for His creation to understand the covenant of marriage-both of a man and woman and also of the covenant marriage of Christ to His Bride. The beauty of wearing such wedding garments when a bride is received by the groom on those two monumental occasions was revelation to me. What a blessing!"-Ann

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098090333

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Behold!

Wedding Garments for a Bride and Groom to Be Worn Twice

Mary Walmsley

Copyright © 2021 by Mary Walmsley

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Table of Contents

A Vow

School

Visitations

Smocks

A Sign

Twice

Stitches

Listen!

Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord

that He may teach us about His ways

and that we may walk in His paths.

—Mic. 4:2

Preface

Behold! Wedding Garments for a Bride and Groom to Be Worn Twice is an allegory describing how and why complementary wedding garments for a bride and groom came into being under my hand and the benefit they hold for the future of marriage.

The story being theirs rather than mine, I chose to present it in the third person, using she and the woman instead of I and me. This was done in honor of the many women in the Bible whose noble deeds of faith are described in Holy Scripture but without mentioning the women by name. Three examples are Jephthah’s daughter (Judges 11), Manoa’s wife (Judges 13), and the wise woman of Abel-beth-maachah (2 Samuel 2). As with the unknown soldier, their names are lost forever.

I structured the narrative to resemble a biblical story using biblical words and phrases whenever possible. This I did to honor the Lord my God whose mind, heart, and hand have guided me every step of the way.

By God’s grace, He gave me the skill and the call to create these wedding garments as well as be their