The Story of Ian and Larissa
Ian and I had planned to get married as soon as we graduated from college in December of 2006. But instead, everything was halted with his brain injury, which he received on September 30 of that year in a car accident. And so instead of getting married when we were young and healthy and naive, we waited four years and got married when he was sick and disabled and we were still grieving...
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There are not many women in the world like her, most would have ran the other way after his accident. He is extremely lucky. It's beautiful the love they share. God bless you all.
This man is completely cognizant it's just probubly hard for him to talk as well as he once did. This woman has a heart of gold.
I too am disabled, having been born paralyzed from the waist down because of Spina Bifida. I also have found the answer to my prayers for a partner. Tiffany and I have known each other since i was in middle School, and reconnected a little over 2 years ago and I am proud to say that THIS SATURDAY June 26th 2021 we will be walking down the aisle and saying "I do" as husband and wife. I couldnt be more excited and happy with the way my life is going.
@bethestandardallday
Жыл бұрын
Congratulations brother. So so happy for you
@riobird1363
Жыл бұрын
Congratulations!!! 🎉🎊
This is one of the clearest pictures of the love of Jesus Christ I have ever seen. I can't wait to meet these two in heaven, they will be absolutely glorious.
@rsmugs
9 жыл бұрын
I see them every week in church, I'm 53 and they are in inspiration to me.
@bebe-mariecrespo7389
7 жыл бұрын
Danny Dolan same,it so beautiful
@pranav3580
5 жыл бұрын
I'm in tears.
@tacodude286
4 жыл бұрын
Danny, I couldn't have said it better.
@beautyforever6287
4 жыл бұрын
Amen♥️💙🙏
i will never again complain about my life or my husband again. forgive me Lord for being ungrateful! i'm putting this in my favorites so that i can keep watching it, to continue to learn to love God first and foremost, then my husband. thank you God for Your blessings.. you're absolutely right Ian...God Is AWESOME!!!
Omg! I'm sobbing like a baby. How beautiful is this love.
This is one of the best testimonies of God's pure and undying love. Your lives have taught us that God will give us the strength we need to overcome anything we experience in life. The Lord says we shall become as "one" in marriage in all things. Look to the Lord for all things and your cup shall run over with Love and strength through the Lord Jesus Christ. God Bless and keep you both in the everlasting light of his love and mercy.
What a phenomenal woman of God. And phenomenal testimony of Christ's covenant keeping love. So sad and yet so glorious
A beautiful reminder of God's love for us all.
This is so beautiful!! I'm literally crying!! I'm sooo sorry!!! But so happy that you still got married to each other! This is the perfect example of true love. Your love is so pure and unconditional!!!❤
@harrissonjones3396
5 жыл бұрын
I have a speech problem but God knows me and he can understand me because he created all of us.
I can’t stop crying. This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed
Oh my goodness I was crying before I even heard the story!!!! So much Love!!!!
From beginning to finish absolutely precious and inspiring. Powerful testimony. And just a side note: the wedding party and guests were a treasure to see. Thank you.
Hello Larissa. I saw this 4 yrs ago when I started college...before I had a boyfriend. Now 2017 I'm single again and whenever I pray for that future guy, this the kind of love that I picture and have always had in mind. I just forgot what your names are but for sure your kind of faith and love is what I've always admired and made a huge impact in me way back then up to now. I commend you for this story and give the glory to the Lord, most of all, for the example and inspiration you are to me (us here). God bless you both sissy! P.S. Btw, I realized the guy that I was in a relationship with for 2 yrs is the same name as your guy. Wow! Hello, Ian. If you are reading this, this is my faith as you know and I love this story so much I would seriously cry if I wouldn't see it again through the keywords I typed in. I hope you find this by searching it or getting here yourself. Just want you to know I've grown so much now and I'm sorry and very thankful as well. And although I pray for the traits that I picture my future husband would be (if the Lord allows), which are the traits similar to that of Christ, I've always been praying for you abt that matter. I don't want to forget our past, unless you're really not for me. And I always include you and your entire family's life (atleast those I saw from your family reunion pictures) Can't message you. Message me! 😄
1Co 13:4 ¶ Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
@loveiskind23izamar
4 жыл бұрын
Bogosi Phuti I have that tatted on my rib cage
this is true love
@guzlemuzle
5 жыл бұрын
or she could of just visited him couple times a year instead...
@animefan2454
5 жыл бұрын
@@guzlemuzle that I can beleive.
This has opened my heart to consider the purpose of marriage.
I love the idea to make a board of gratefulness, it's beautiful. the way Ian say: "Hi wife" to Larissa is just so...heartwarming :) yes, You're so awesome, God. God bless you, Ian & Larissa. I'm blessed with your story :)
I believe in love again...this made me very emotional...
@optimisticallycynical.814
6 жыл бұрын
aquillamichelleTV sever my spine and take me home babe , I'm all yours. 😘😘😘
Thank you for sharing. Your marriage is a living testimony of the love of Christ.
So beautiful. This is such an amazing testimony
Blessed and encouraging testimony! God bless you both!
I pray to God that I find a woman like her one day. 🙏🏽
@khrusazoswuro9082
2 жыл бұрын
You will brother👍👍
@bethestandardallday
2 жыл бұрын
No. You pray to become to become a man that take care of woman no matter how bad it gets.
You give me hope. My brother has VCFS and I hope to god everyday that he meets the right woman who will be there for him and wont take advantage of him. I’m so terrified of letting him go. Thank you for posting your video.
I don't have words for you guys but to respect silently !! Love you guys! He is indeed awesome !!
The love of Christ shines through in this young woman. May God bless their marriage greatly.
As completely crazy as it seems to our human logic, I believe it would’ve been a burden of guilt she would’ve carried for the rest of her life if she had walked away. That’s some seriously strong faith!
@lovelyeyessee
3 жыл бұрын
Agree. She might have a huge sense of obligation.
its so touchy. really an amazing story. Hats off to you guys !!
Love really exists! Jesus the only one who shows and lives love as well as this couples! so touchy
I am very challenged by this - and encouraged. Thanks for posting.
So happy for both of you!! May the joys of the world never leave your side! Have a love filled and peaceful life both of you ❤ Lots of Love ❤😘
Pray that God will continue to carry both of you through! You are a wonderful testimony to a Christ-centered marriage. Hope that God will always be your strength and your joy. Wishing you the very very best and the greatest happiness
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, so amazing, God bless
completely speechless, This is Love! God bless!
this video should bequeath to at least 30 million views....Larissa you are an example of love and Ian a hero!
I'm crying watching this . hopefully both of you always in good health and have a wonderful life. be strong. God is always listen . God never sleep . so do not stop to pray . may God bless both of you
What a beautiful story - God bless you both...
Another beautiful story of love. For the person who said a guy would run the other way, Tony Tada has been married to Joni Eareckson Tada for 31 years. She was a paraplegic when he married her.
This is so beautiful and inspiring! So full of joy and love :)
Pure love. Lot of respect
I am a sinner, a wretched sinner! Help me God! May the grace and peace of our Lord be with this lovely couple!
So touching
They really truly love each other. As Corinthians mentions... This is love.
This is beautiful, and true love. God bless you all ❤️
Beautiful story💕
Sweetest story I've heard!
From Indonesia I Would like to say thanks "nice share Ian and Larissa". He's Awesome
This made me cryyyyyy
Wow!!! A lucky man indeed! But did anyone else see anything more than that? This is a very good example to relate to the Love of God. Isn't that how God loves ? Doesn't God also want us to be Saved despite All, doesn't forsake us Actually I have been seeking the Lord for my Salvation and struggling to submit to HIM and many times hated GOD, rebelled against HIM, etc. But still God hasn't given up on me.
This is absolutely true love. God bless you both 💛🙏
This is so beautiful im freaking crying!😭😭 i can only hope and pray to God that he blesses me with the same kind of love he has blessed this couple with🙏 #HonesttoGODtruelove
This was so beautiful 😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am a c 5-6 quad and I know how great GOD is I have a beautiful godly wife who married me and me in my chair, our faith in GOD is growing, GOD BLESS YOU BOTH
"He's Awesome." - love that
all I could say is God bless you guys it really touch my heart .
I LOVE THIS! I teared, God is so amazing & so good-3
I am personally encouraged by this video... thanks so much for uploading video, and showing what really marriage is about .... world and society lies about concept of marriage, but marriage in Christ is reflection of Him and His church.... and Thanks so much for sharing story of this.... Thanks so much
Thats amaazing! So crazzy!
Amazing.
This kind of stuff makes me smile
may uhh guyz find every happiness in this world!!! I'm so glad to see uhh guyz happy!!! lots of love ❤😘
wow Im so moved by the story.... both of you are an inspiration :) God bless
God bless you both! Through sickness and in health! 💞
wow. i'm speechless. so sweet.
And here I am depressed about my life when it could be way different bless them both 💜💜💜💜
Tearing up. God bless you.
Larissa, you are an amazing woman. Ian, you are an amazing man. I wonder how he communicates with his wife and lead her in their marriage. Would be great to hear him talk more than just a few brief words. I'm just at awe and humbled by this segment.
both are brave ,respect for them. god bless you ,guys.
Beautiful story :) God bless you both
Thank you
I totally agree with you. If the young couple were already married before the accident occurred, then it would make sense to stay with her husband, but not if they were only going out.
I love this
That's unconditional LOVE!
God Bless him, and i hope he makes a full recovery.
Wow. I admire Pastor Piper and his gift of communicating the things of God to so many. The woman in this video is.....Well, it brought me to tears to see a living testimony in her of the love and the strength and the will of God. Looking in at the canvas of their life, there will be challenges no doubt, but glory in the name of the highest to those who endure until the end. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
I cant even imagine going through all this.
This made me cry. A young man in my parents church was in a car accident years ago. The doctors said he would not live the night. He made it through the night and surgery. He was dating a girl that did walk away from the relationship.
awesome!!!!
Amen!! God is Awesome!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I would like to think that God is the only one who doesn't find this incredible. I hope my meaning is not taken wrongly here. This is amazing.
Wow what a special woman. God is so good. God bless them and their family. I pray God can help me to be as humble and happy as her.
such a sweet love of her life
Beautiful..
Beautiful.
this is what I was thinking. I fail at this goal every day, sadly, but it's what every man should strive for.
Jesus shines brightly through the love of this marriage and the sunlight of the spirit emanates all from the source of this goodness. Well done my friends. May we all learn to live a better life from your example.
amazing
Larissa you a truly a pearl !
This is what true love lives like. God bless them. 🤗🙏🏻🙇🏼♀️🥰🌈💜😇
This is a great video. I hope to get married and have children too. I am praying for my God to give me the strength for it 🙂✌️
Very heart warming, ain’t nothing weird about two commited partners in love with each other
Glory to God! May God continue to bless you and your husband. Amen.
That's is so sweet
Thank you for this. For me, this shows that once you have the love of Christ in your heart. All things are possibe. God Bless them and you.
wow incredible
God bless you
I wish one day I get true love like this.
I don't know if i would be able to do this... and a lot of other godly things which frightens the hell out of me
Now that is unconditional and true love. God's love will never fail
I am speechless