I Saw the Most Beautiful Thing...

This September I will have worked at SPAC for two years. In this time I have gotten to be a part of many different experiences and work with all kinds of different people.  This last Saturday however I got to do something for the very first time. I officiated a wedding.  This was both very exciting and somewhat nerve raking. It seems everyone has a good “wedding story”. You know the type, the ones where people feint or the groom’s pants fall down. The rings fall into a crack on the stage or the Pastor announces the happy couple for the first time by the wrong name... Growing up with Pastors all around me in the family tree I have certainly heard my share of these horror stories.

It is with these in my mind, which were once sources of laughter but on that day the instruments of fear, I entered the church Saturday morning.  There are certainly many stories to tell of that day however there is one story that I will most remember.

It isn’t that I arrived Saturday morning to find water pouring in through the floor in the auditorium.

It isn’t during the ceremony when the bride asked if I had a tissue and I responded, “I do... not I do, I do, but I do”

No it isn’t at the reception when the bouquet was tossed... into the ceiling fan that chopped those flowers up!

No, the story that I will most remember is the look of a young man and a young woman who are most certainly in love. What a gift from our God!  Not only the gift of love, not only that person who we feel connected to but the idea of marriage.

Having the best seat in the house while two declare their love for each other in front of friends, family and God, I was struck with how truly immense the gift of marriage is.

Saturday was more than just a new experience for me,  it was a moment which caused me to add yet another reason to thank God for his goodness to us.