Today I head out for Newfoundland, off Canada’s eastern coast. I will be officiating at my brother’s wedding. Dallas and Leanne will be declaring before God, family and friends on Wednesday; very exciting.
One of the things I enjoy about weddings is that the wedding is one of the few celebrations that focuses almost entirely on a relationship; on the “Us” of an “I/Thou.”
The very fact that marriage is held as such a strong commitment to each other, before God, the “Us’s” community, and the state, helps reinforce the fact that marriage maybe the closest human relational image we have to the Holy Trinity. The “marriage is a living spirit” embodying the selfless-love of the two persons. Plurality and oneness.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote to a young relative on her wedding day. Saying that, “Your marriage is your private possession but it’s also much more than that.” And then he said, “from this day onward it will not be your love that keeps your marriage alive but your marriage that keeps your love alive.”
I’ll have very limited web access while I’m away so it may be a few days before I’m back. If you reading this, offer a quick prayer for Lynette and Pascal as they are home without me for these days. Thanks.
Peace, dwight
