Both pics taken with the iphone. I am really getting into it.
I had a lot of fun yesterday celebrating the wedding of two friends to each other. I spent the day with my ex housemates, at the wedding and at the reception, laughing, joking, and planning our role for this year's A Literary Feast, a series of dinner parties based on books, held to raise money for local schools. We are going to have so much fun planning and cooking together. I can't wait.
The wedding, too, was lovely, in spite of the fact that the pastor kept railing about the hardships of marriage, all the awful crap that is part of life in "this broken world," as she described it. Sheesh. I know I've been in a bad mood, but really if I had been officiating, I would have erred on the side of joy, celebration and high hopes for the couple's bright future, rather than dragging them down repeatedly by explaining how effin hard it's going to be, hence it's a good thing to have a partner to lean on. Bloody hell, who needs to hear that on their wedding day? Well?
What I kept thinking about during the service is that I guess I am not the only one in a foul mood right now.
Have a wonderful Sunday, y'all. I'm going to work. Shalom.
12 comments:
I agree, Reya, The focus should have been on joy. Geesh.Glad you have a lot of fun things to look forward to!
Hardship is always easier when tempered by grace and whatever joy can be found. I imagine it's the heat and humidity and the prospect of more severe financial difficulties ahead that give rise to short tempers and dire predictions. Sometimes, when life hands you lemons, you have to hand them right back with a polite but firm "No thanks."
I agree wholeheartedly!
I'm glad you're enjoying the iPhone! I love taking pictures and videos of mine (though they are mostly of the kids-go figure). It takes such great pictures.
That sounds like a bit of a downer on the ceremony. Probably pretty depressing for all those unmarried folks with no one to lean on...Guess you'll just have to do something crazy like rely on your friends.
Really! What was she thinking? A friend of mine a got married many years back in a born again church and I was just aghast at the wedding service, all about how she was supposed to suborn herself to her husband.
This country is in such a mess right now. I'm going back to having my head in the sand. Facing reality has done nothing for my mood.
Suborn herself? Screw that!
How funny, Reya! That just ain't right!
Every couple is allowed a little starry-eyed optimism...even if it's only on their wedding day!
Your pics are getting better and better...whatever the camera.
Hellooooooo!
WWPD?
(What would Pollyanna do?)
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Probably not what Pollyanna would do...but I think Ron White had a good idea when he said "if life gives you lemons, find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party"!
I definitely agree that wedding days should be for joyful celebrating, and starry-eyed optimism.
Weddings should be about joy and hope and promise. The fact that the world has never been a perfect place, not a paradise...this is something NOT to be emphasized at a wedding! Hrumpf.
Hey your iPhone is taking some pretty cool pics these days. (Well, it's actually you taking the photos, not the phone.) I really like the second one.
Wow, sounds to me like that priest ought to consider a change of direction, I agree with you, the celebration of the joy of union would have been a better topic to share with them.....
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