What is it about a wedding that puts a smile on our face…
It’s more than just the grandeur…the splendor…the pageantry…the grace.
It’s also that in any wedding…we know at least a portion of the cast…
and we meld our hopes for their future together…with our memories of the past.
We attended a wedding the other day…in a covered tent…outside…
for many years Deborah has been best friends with the mother of the bride.
Through a lifetime of peaks and valleys their friendship has endeared
beginning long before the vestiges of age…on their faces…first appeared.
While they still thought only of childhood things…when they didn’t think too far ahead.
Long before they had children…one of whom was about to wed.
I imagine as she watched her daughter getting married…watched her smile glow…
Mom’s mind might have wandered back…to a time not so long ago…
A time when her daughter was a baby…when she held her in her arms…
when she whispered in her ear…I’m here…I will keep you safe from harm…
I imagine there were tears in her eyes…I wonder if anyone heard…
when, with a smile accompanying her tears she whispered softly…proudly…
I kept my word.
I can imagine what Deborah was thinking…as once again their lives were paired..
glad to be part of another milestone these two old friends have shared.
The wedding was quite beautiful…but sometimes the most beautiful parts of a wedding…are the things we have to look a little harder to see.
Like two old friends who over the years have become part of each others family…
Like the smile shared by the bride and groom…
as in front of them their entire future lies…
Like the look of love and joy, delight and pride…
behind a friend’s…
and a mother’s eyes.
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