Grimly Optimistic

Somniodelic Workshop Propers: The Second Sunday After Epiphany , AD 2025 C Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for You know his sins are great. Grace mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Not once, in a quarter-century as an officiant, have I ever witnessed a sad wedding. Have you? I’ve seen large weddings and small, indoors and out, summer and winter, daylight and dark, ceremonious and informal, secular, Christian, multifaith, and Wiccan. I’ve officiated from Montana mountaintops to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And every one of those nuptials has been happy. How could they not be? Weddings involve families and friends, music and beauty, memories of the past and promises of the future. And afterward, of course, there is food and drink and cheer. The atmosphere’s electric with new beginnings, new possibilities. Young marriages especially tend to spin off three or four new couples in a cascading reaction, weddings begetting wedding...