Wonderful Words

9/25/10 Pleasant temperatures. Grapevine arch. Attendants in chocolate colored dresses with bronzish cowboy boots. Guests transported to outdoor ceremony via a tractor drawn hay wagon. Pews created from hay bales covered with quilts. “Here Comes the Bride” played by a Bluegrass band. All the trappings of a wedding outdoors in the country just outside “Music City.”

Happily Ever After. Has a nice ring to it doesn’t it. But is it a “ring of truth”---from a magic wish. I think not.

Gratefully, the pastor at nephew, Cody & Sara’s wedding explained to them that love began with commitment and continued with unconditional requirements. You love when your partner is grumpy, if you just don’t feel like loving and you love especially when times are hard times. (As hard as it was for the flower girls to climb the hill with out losing their rose petals.)

I listened carefully for the vows, which they had written themselves and though they didn’t say “til death do us part,” they did say they would love only each other through all of their days.

As the preacher read Ephesians 4:26 “Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,” they nodded in agreement as the sun began to set, the kiss was given and they set off in their hay wagon to begin a marriage as one.