title: Mourning for the Bridegroom
author:  Dana Candler 
description: Dana Candler lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband Matt and their four children. She and Matt serve on the leadership team at the International House of Prayer. Dana is also an instructor at the International House of Prayer University, a full-time Bible school. She is the author of Deep unto Deep: The Journey of His Embrace, Entirety: Love Gives All, and Mourning for the Bridegroom.
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   _ **Chapter 1**_
  
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  " **Y** ou have stolen my heart with just one glance of your eyes."
  
   _—The Song of Songs_
  
    
  
   _"_ _ **A**_ _nother_ bad omen. You have to call off the wedding!"
  
  Tessa Beaumont glanced up from her desk in alarm as her best friend and maid
  of honor, Melody Parrish, stormed into Tessa's office at Oregon Pacific Bank,
  a large garment bag flung over one shoulder. Tessa's stomach pitched. _What
  now?_ "Mel? What's wrong?"
  
  Her sapphire eyes snapping, Melody shoved the door closed with her foot.
  "Every time you progress with your wading plans, something terrible happens. A
  freak fungus down south wiped out the orchid farm. Your photographer slipped
  on a stray gefilte fish at a bar mitzvah and broke his arm. The caterer went
  belly-up after food poisoning flattened three