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Article: Glorious promises.(wedding vows)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- December 20, 2000
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Sunday, January 14 Isaiah 62:1-5; John 2:1-11
AT EVERY WEDDING we wait for the moment when we witness a bride and groom vow faithfulness to each other "'til death us do part." We think when we hear those words, or even more when we speak them ourselves, that death will come to visit much later, at some far distant boundary of a marital union begun today with such promise.
But death is already there. It comes to sit with us at the beginning, else there is no glory, no gravity to the marriages we make by giving ourselves to each other. We do a weighty thing when we commit to sharing most intimately with one partner the brief and precious life each of us gets on this ...
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