Today Jenni and Anthony (Dear Anthony, she says) will repeat vows before three hundred friends and family. It is a blessing for me to be invited to share their joy.

They are surrounded by young marrieds. I got to listen to some of their conversations. To overhear, "That was when you were in Iraq," and realize the sacrifices this generation has made.

Yes, these are two generations from where we stand, and they fulfill our hopes and dreams. They love and show their love for our Lord. Not everyone in their audience does. That will not keep them from making promises to each other and to their Lord, plighting troth and vowing to remain together.

May God bless them. May their lives be filled with His joy and may they grow ever closer to each other as they serve Him.

May your weekend be as blessed (but I know that will be hard to match!)

The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.  (Matthew 19:3-8)