When Your Son Becomes a Husband

There are days when time seems to fold in on itself.

Today is one of them.

As I sit with the weight and wonder of this moment, our son’s wedding day, I find myself revisiting old rooms in the heart. The laughter of childhood, the ache of discipline, the joy of watching him find his own way. You think you’re building a man over years of shared life, but in truth, God has always been shaping him. We are just privileged to walk alongside.

We’ve spent years, his mother and I, pouring love, discipline, and prayers into Jacob. In the quiet moments of parenting, we never fully knew what would take root, but God did. And now, here he stands, ready to cleave to another. Ready to become one flesh with someone who is not us. And that is beautiful. But it is also tender. Because this is one of those thresholds we cannot walk him across. We can only bless the path and step aside.

Genesis 2 verse 24 says, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” It is a verse I have read hundreds of times. But today, it pulses with living meaning. The leaving is real. And so is the joining.

This is not about loss. It is about fulfillment. God’s design being lived out right in front of us. And that is what both humbles me and lifts me. Because if all the prayers, all the moments of faith and failure, were planting, then this, today, is part of the harvest.

And yet, even harvests come with quiet surrender. We give thanks. We offer back. We release.

Watching your son become a husband is not about clinging to who he was. It is about releasing him into who God is still forming him to be. It is about trusting that the One who has held your child all along will now hold this new union even more firmly.

Now he joins hands with Natalia, and together they step into a covenant far bigger than themselves. A sacred one. A Christ-centered one. A journey where they will need each other and need God.

So today, I breathe deep. I let the tears rise when they need to. I say yes to what God is doing. And I pray that my love, though quieter now, will still be a strength he feels in the background of his life.

Because we do not stop being fathers. We just step into the background of a new story and trust that grace will keep writing what we no longer can.

Prayer:

Lord, on this sacred day, I surrender once more what You entrusted to me years ago. Thank You for the gift of watching a child become a man. Thank You for the love that brought him to this moment. Bless Jacob and Natalia. Knit their hearts with Your Spirit, and build in them a marriage that glorifies You in every season. Help their love reflect Your grace. Strengthen their union with truth and peace. And help me, Lord, to trust You with the rest of the journey. In Jesus’ name, Amen.