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Date: 28 March 2005 17:27:41
I have spent most of holy week working (including Easter Sunday) and the rest of it suffering some non-specific sleeping virus, so I feel like I've missed out on all the joy you've all been blogging about. Maybe I'll take next week to do the Holy Week readings from my notes - and see if I can get back to the sheer bigness and wonder of Jesus' death and resurrection - but it's difficult when you're up to your ears in daily news.
Went to a wonderful wedding on Saturday though - a couple from our church (which has no building and no ordained minister) at the local Anglican church. A wonderful mixture of the two traditions - the minister must have felt she was hosting all of us, rather than just a wedding party, and let small children do their usual "whirling dervish" impressions in the aisle, and our pastor do the sermon. We were blessed with the task of doing the prayers, and also - more unusually - with having the bride and chief bridesmaid sleeping at our house the night before. This was lovely, but bizarre. I've not felt so parental before. We gave them a cooked breakfast, and champagne, but when they went to the hairdressers, and left me to check the flowers, I was struck by a sudden sense of responsibility. The scary bit was when the florist wished me congratulations. Did she think I was the bride, or the bride's mum? Either way, you've got to worry.
Still, it was a lovely day. Don't think I've ever seen a couple so openly delighted to be taking those vows. Made me smile all over. They are big, and serious vows, after all - and it is fab to see people who obviously take them seriously also enjoying the committment.