My family and I just spent our New Years in the lovely Savannah, Georgia. The weather was fantastic, around 70 degrees, and the city was historical and not to mention beautiful, but what gathered us together was something of a different nature. My cousin, James, got married this evening, to his high school sweet heart, Danielle! The ceremony was great, officiated by the groom's father, John, and the food brought the rumbles of "Yums" and "Mmmms" back into all of our vocabularies. What intrigued me most about the weekend though, was what it represented. Technically, marriage is the bonding of two people, but they are not the only ones involved. On New Years Eve, we all drove out to Danielle's parents' house for a party and got to spend time with lot of people we would have otherwise never meet. Her father, Brad, allowed us to meander on to his boat and hang out in their theater room. Our family was invited into the home of Danielle's family. We have gotten to know eachother and then, tonight during the wedding ceremony, we became one. The Donaldson and Word families are now one great, big, happy family. No matter where we all go from here, we are undeniably linked. I love how Yahweh takes something like marriage and gives it so many levels. On the surface, it seems as though two people are gettin' hitched and that's the end of it, but if we look a little deeper, we can see the relationships that are formed out the first one. Oh how His ways are so much greater than ours. He can see past the surface and into the beauty of what is to be. We've got a really cool God.
A verse for what is now morning (when did it get so late?): "Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." -1 Corinthians 13: 4-8a
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