Wedding Bells will soon ring out!

So it looks like Jamie and Lance will be getting married in May at the Bridges of Madison County and that immediate family will be invited and it will be the day before the reception at Cedar Valley. Wow! It is going to be a wonderful day for them and I pray I can be there. Things are not good financially but I pray that money will happen and jobs will appear and I will be there with tinkley bells on! Yippee! I believe this will be good. I have a positivity over this that overcomes the natural suspicion that people have for anyone trying to marry their daughter(sister, or best friend) so I am just going with that wonderful positive impression. My prayers are with them of course just as they have been for Ira and Ash, for Mike and Jessica and the products of those unions. Marriage is a wild adventure. It is not for the unstable or the fearful or the day-dreamer there is much to much reality for the day-dreams to stay alive and too many dangers for the fearful and too much adventure for the unstable. Marriage is for the brave and adventuresome who find the reality is better than the fantasy and refuse to retreat in the face of the dangers that appear. Marriage is business and partnership and covenant stuff with mysteries that never are solved and tensions that stay taught and problems that ebb and flow and sometimes are put behind us. Marriage is a trial and a blessing and a long road that winds and climbs. I know this well after so long and so many false starts. Blessings upon them as they plunge beneath the waterfall holding hands. Blessings upon them as they walk down the winding and steep road. Oh yeah!