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09/06/2002 Entry: "All you need is love"
One of the happiest duties of my ministry - but also one of the most onerous from an administrative point of view - is the conduct of marriage services. There's something moving about the new beginning that it represents that always touches me somehow. Most of the marriages ceremonies that I've been involved in have have a reading from 1 Corinthians 13: "Love is patient and kind, it is not jealous or boastful or rude..." Powerful words, especially perhaps in the context of a wedding where people come together to publically proclaim their commitment to one another. A far cry from those cheesy "Love is..." cartoons of the 1970's.I always try to remind couples that though love is often thought of as merely a feeling, the Bible makes clear that "true love" has a huge element of decision in it. When Jesus said, "Love one another" he wasn't insisting that we all have warm cosy feelings to each other all the time. And he went on to say, "...as I have loved you." Real love is always sacrificial, and this is true for the love of husband and wife, parent and child, Christian sister and brother, even for the love that we are commanded to have for our enemies.
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Having been to three weddings in the last fortnight that's a v. timely thought - and more than a bit of a challenge! thanks lots :) alice
Posted by alice @ 09/06/2002 09:57 PM CST
