Something old, something new, something...
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"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." To that list of
ingredients for a wedding, we could add one more: "Something to go wrong."
That's something we should be sure to tell all brides and grooms. There they'll be on their wedding day, all nervous that everything may not go exactly right. "Don't worry," we should tell them, "It won't." Always there's something (or someone) forgotten, neglected, backward, or late. Always there's that slip-up, that mishap, that stumbling over words (or over something more substantial).
"Don't worry," we should tell the couples getting married. "Something will go wrong -- and very likely it will turn out to be that very thing, years from now, that will become the centerpiece of your favorite wedding story."
At the marriage at Cana, something went wrong. Only this was no minor glitch. According to the customs of the day, it was a social disaster. But Jesus made it right.
That's something we should be sure to tell all brides and grooms. There they'll be on their wedding day, all nervous that everything may not go exactly right. "Don't worry," we should tell them, "It won't." Always there's something (or someone) forgotten, neglected, backward, or late. Always there's that slip-up, that mishap, that stumbling over words (or over something more substantial).
"Don't worry," we should tell the couples getting married. "Something will go wrong -- and very likely it will turn out to be that very thing, years from now, that will become the centerpiece of your favorite wedding story."
At the marriage at Cana, something went wrong. Only this was no minor glitch. According to the customs of the day, it was a social disaster. But Jesus made it right.
