Invited to two weddings this weekend, we were able to attend both. While it was a bit much for one weekend, it was both fun and felt like something married folks should do more often. It is good to revisit the promises made, in our case, almost 23 years ago. It is perhaps more meaningful for the congregation to hear the pastor advise, "You are committing to a lifetime, not promising to feel a certain way, but rather promising to love . . .", than for the young bride and groom who can hardly envision all that life may bring their way. How wonderful to hear, in the joy of celebrating two young people so well-suited to one another, these words from 1 Peter: Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
I'm still reading Olive Kitteridge. (When you only read at bedtime, and you rarely make it through more than a few pages, a small book can last a really, really long time.) In the short story Winter Concert, a 70+ year old wife muses, "They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicated meal, and now there was this lovely dessert."
Cheers to both couples. May they love their way to that lovely dessert.
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