until death do us part

On March 1st, 2008, things too wonderful, things high and lofty, will occur in this life. Amidst flowers, bouquets, dresses and ribbons, two will become one flesh. I will no longer belong to myself, and no longer will Matt belong to himself.

But while I can wax eloquent about the abstractions of marriage, its physical instantiation may appear commonplace. Getting groceries, cooking dinner, doing dishes, brushing teeth and all the little bits and pieces of everyday life.

But we forget that the high and lofty, the wonderful and mighty, is to be experienced and lived in the very mundane. We’re foolish to think that the spiritual is something above and beyond us, that which cannot be experienced on an everyday (and tangible) basis. We will not be faithful with much if we cannot be faithful with little.

In plenty and in want… In strength and in weakness… in joy and in sadness

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“He has filled His world full of pleasures. There are things for humans to do all day long without His minding in the least –sleeping, washing, eating, drinking, making love, playing, praying, working. Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us. We fight under cruel disadvantages. Nothing is naturally on our side.”

~ Uncle Screwtape, a wise old demon, to his novice nephew demon Wormwood in C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters