Howdy, and welcome to the Breakaway podcast. Thanks for listening.

Breakaway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Today's message is from Breakway's executive director, Timothy Ateak.

We hope you enjoy the message. Hey, what a joy the message.

Hey, what a joy to be in Davis Diamond. Would you just help me thank one more time

our Aggie softball team for letting us be here tonight.

Let me just say, please don't let tonight

be the only time that you find yourself

in Davis Diamond this year.

Get out and support Aggie's

hotball. I will be here. I'll bring my kids and we can't wait to cheer you guys on.

Well, Catherine and I, we got married on October 14, 2006, and we had an incredible

wedding because all of our family and friends were in the same place at the same time and they were all obligated to bring us gifts. That's the beauty about getting married is you get to register and you basically get to tell people you need to buy me this. And I love it. It's a beautiful thing. It's a magical thing. Guys, make sure you let the girls do the register and you stay out of the way,

but you just say, whatever you want, I agree. That's your role in everything regarding marriage.

But we had an incredible wedding, and then we had an incredible wedding reception. It was really next level because I'm half Palestinian, and so I don't know if you've ever seen any TV shows or

movies where there's like a Middle Eastern wedding where people, the bride and groom get lifted up

on chairs or on people's shoulders and people circle up and start yelling and chanting and some

uncle pulls out a drum and starts playing it like that was our wedding reception and so like my sister-in-law's high school friends that was our wedding reception.

And so like my sister-in-law's high school friends came to our wedding reception,

and they all left saying, I want to marry an Egyptian.

And I was like, I'm not Egyptian, but I hope that goes well for you.

Good luck with all the desires of your heart.

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