Wedding Adventures

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My family and I are in NY this weekend at my niece's wedding, a lovely occasion during which my niece and her new husband never once appeared flustered.  However, as I looked around at the reception and glimpsed my older son eating a piece of bloody roast beef with his bare hands (I wrested it from him before his grandmother could see), I was reminded that not every wedding goes so smoothly.

My own wedding ceremony suffered from the classic gridlock at the front of the bridal procession when our flower girl melted down and refused to walk down the aisle, much less scatter the rose petals.  Apparently, that is a fairly common occurrence.  Years later the same thing happened to my sister (different flower girl, even). 

All the fuss and stress might lead one to wonder, is this really good for us?  It's enough to make a bride bolt.  To lighten the pressure I strongly suggest getting pre-married; Joe and I were.  We were legally married in a quickie wedding chapel six months before our church/family wedding.  It was actually a lovely occasion.  Two friends came to be witnesses, that was all, and when we walked down that aisle an employee solemnly pushed a button on an old cassette tape recorder, filling the room with the strains of the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun... to Live..."  Very sweet.  Afterwards, they gave the happy couple the option of taking pictures with a plastic cake and an empty punch bowl.


However one gets married, I do believe that everyone should try it once!

Praying for Abundance

Lord, help me to align my thoughts and my actions with your will for me.  Help me to channel love, peace, gratitude and abundance.  However, just to be a little more specific, I don't mean the kind of abundance in which someone gives me a box of kittens.  Further, we are already abundantly wealthy in Lego mini-figures (I think my husband is trying to corner the market).  Also, we have quite a few chickens due to certain people (who shall remain unnamed) caving in to the cuteness of the chicks at the hardware store this spring.  We probably don't need more eggs.

Lord, we live in abundance, and for that I am grateful.  Thank you for all of the grass in the empty pastures that I mow, please send us affordable calves to eat the grass.  Please help me to stay strong when someone offers me 'free' ex-racehorses that need endless joint injections and equine acupuncture.  Help me to recall that we will probably want to retire someday, and that our children may not get basketball scholarships to college (especially given that they don't play basketball now...)  

In conclusion, Lord, thank you our family and our home.  Help me to keep appreciating the healthful abundance we do have, such as the plums on the gnarly looking tree, and to keep avoiding the abundance that is not so healthful, namely the coupons for free Hardee's fries.  Help me to share my simple thoughts of appreciation with others.  Amen.