Encouragement

There is a lot going on, we have moved to St. Louis, Tyler has started his new job, and I am on the Job hunt.
Information on all of this will have to come in another post, right now I just wanted to encourage everyone with a quote that I just found on another friends post. It's a little past Thanksgiving, and Christmas season is getting ready to begin.
Read and be encouraged! The LORD is good, his love surely endures forever.

Love,
Emily

“To the Christian it should be great joy, by means of the harvest, to receive an assurance of God's faithfulness. The Lord has promised that seed-time and harvest, summer and winter, shall never cease; and when you see the loaded wain carrying in the crop you may say to yourself, "God is true to his promise. Despite the dreary winter and the damp spring, autumn has come with its golden grain." Depend upon it, that as the Lord keeps this promise he will keep all the rest. All his promises are yea and amen in Christ Jesus: if he keeps his covenant to the earth, much more will he keep his covenant with his own people, whom he hath loved with an everlasting love. Go, Christian, to the mercy seat with the promise on your lip and plead it. Be assured it is not a dead letter. Let not unbelief cause you to stammer when you mention the promise before the throne, but say it boldly—"Fulfill this word unto thy servant on which thou hast caused me to hope." Shame upon us that we so little believe our God. The world is full of proofs of his goodness. Every rising sun, every falling shower, every revolving season certifies his faithfulness. Wherefore do we doubt him? If we never doubt him till we have cause for it we shall never know distrust again. Encouraged by the return of harvest, let us resolve in the strength of the Spirit of God that we will not waver, but will believe in the divine word and rejoice in it.”
– Charles Spurgeon

The Wedding Movie

Josh Minogue was extremely awesome and did our wedding videography for us. We have been very excited to see what he has done and to show it to you all. Below is his finished montage of our wedding. Hope you enjoy it.

Tyler & Emily - Montage from Josh Minogue on Vimeo.

RRG

It has been a while again. No excuse this time, we just take a long time in between blogs. I could say we are contemplating what to write if that helps...

A number of updates, the first of importance though is our recent trip to the Red River Gorge.
Em and I have been wanting to camp for so very long. We wanted to experience the great outdoors, get away, live the simple way, have everything with us on our backs and hike into the woods. And we did it!
Here's what we found out

1. Water is heavy and our sleeping bags are large
2. The gorge isn't quite as big as I previously thought and was actually quite easy to navigate
3. Camp sites that look awesome during the day turn creepy at night
- Sounds that startled us (by us I mean Emily): Acorns dropping, leaves rustling, animals nibbling, howling, people talking, and crickets.
4. My new rain fly works really well

Long story short. We got uncomfortable and ended up trekking out of the woods at 1:30 am....
and it was great.
We were both slap happy half way through the 2 hour drive back to Louisville. We stopped for Ale-8-one and tried to make it home before the moon set.
We will try to whole camping thing again. We will persevere.

Other than that things have been pretty normal.
We are waiting to move to St. Louis, working on being faithful with the money, jobs, and time we have been given right now.
No lie, it's tough a lot of the time. But at the same time it is great.
We're happily married.

We are continuing to get more involved at Sojourn community church's east campus.
And we are planning trips, which is awesome.
To Nashville next weekend and Boston next month. Figure this time is as good as any.

Soon to come: a video of our wedding! Stay tuned.

Hello to blogging!

Ok... So its been a month since our last post. There are many reasons for this.
1. We have since lost internet at our apartment which makes getting away to blog more difficult.
2. We are busy!
3. This is my (em) very 1st attempt at being a blogger and I admit it, I'm a little intimidated. I've read so many other examples of blogging excellence and I fear I will not measure up.

So now it is time to face my fears. Here I sit ready for my 1st go at it...

Since our last post much has happened.
A large chunk of our time has been consumed with wedding festivities. Not our own of course, we are finished with all that craziness. It has been the wedding festivities of our dear friends. Tyler has been in two already, and I have been in one. And we have attended many we have not been in. For the most part we are done for now. All bachelor/bachelorette parties, showers, and dinners have come to a halt. And we have the weekends free again. whew! We wouldn't trade the time for anything. It is such a blessing to see the people we love get married! Marriage is such a gift from the Lord. (we know this, we are in fact married as well)

Also, Ty and I purchased my first real Bike!! I say real, and I mean its not from Walmart. It is a beautiful, Bike Couriers Bike Shop road bike. A Jamis Ventura Sport. Pretty sweet little road bike for a beginner if I do say so myself.
Having this bike is such a blessing because its just another thing that we both now enjoy, and can do together.

In other news... After much discussion with my hubs. I decided to cut my hair. So 13 inches is now sent off somewhere to be made into a wig for someone who needs it more than I do. And I must say, my neck is much cooler in this summer heat. :)

All in all, a lot has been going on. Tyler and I have occupied our time with much working, spending time with each other, and spending time with friends and family. The Lord has given us so much. Our prayer is that we will find a way to give the love we have received from Christ to others we encounter.

One more thing.
Can we pray for you? Prayer is so powerful, and we should all be doing it more than we do. If there is anything in particular post a comment or send us an email. Christ has made the ultimate sacrifice of his life to make a way to the Father, so that at any time, anywhere we can communicate with The Living God. Lets all take advantage of this and pray, and pray some more. And for each other. :)
egracebelcher@gmail.com
tyreybel@gmail.com

This is the end of my very first post. It's probably choppy and weird. But hopefully I will get better with time.

In Christ
Emily

We have a new life

Emily and I are married.
We live in a new place in St. Matthews that we heard about on our wedding day.
I got a job offer on our honeymoon.
We both have great jobs right now.
We have received so very much encouragement from people we know.
We are loving the idea of being together for the rest of our lives.
We got a rockin table the other day at an awesome price ($25, thanks Stewarts!)

So much good going on.
So many things to make us happy!
And we are glad and so very thankful for them all.

The Lord is good.

But we are remembering...He is always good.
These things we have received are from the Lord, and we know it.
But Em and I are not focusing on the gifts, we are focusing on the giver.
For when the job gets hard, or our living conditions are poor, or community with others is scarce, or our relationships is stifled, or....the table breaks. He is good.
We are hoping that our diligence will lead us to look to Him. In the times of plenty or in the times of want.
We are earnestly praying that we will focus on the gospel throughout our marriage. Encouraging one another continually with that one purpose.
And we know He loves us more than our comfort, and wants us to grow and to love those around us with gusto. He wants us to rejoice in Him and be satisfied in Him. We know He will finish what He started: Christ will hold onto us and work on us and make us more like Himself throughout our years.

So this blog is going to be a reflection of that.

We will both be posting. Keeping people up to date on Belcher happenings will be our goal.
Hopefully you will see a lot of growth in humility, obedience, trust, service, and love (not only the mushy kind, but the kind that is hard to do; check out 1 Corinthians 13, 1 John 3:16, or John 15:13).

We will get some sweet pictures of our ceremony up soon. Probably on Facebook. Actually Em is sitting beside me right now adding them to albums. If your not on there go check out Lang Thomas Photography and the pictures Lang took for us found here (Lang I hope you don't mind me linking to your site).

Thanks for reading! Be back soon.

-Ty

P.S. Our rockin table!