Friends In The Lord

Defining One Another

This past weekend I attended a wedding.  The ceremony was beautiful and evoked memories of my own wedding of hardly a year ago.  In particular, it reminded me that we have all taken vows, in one capacity or another (civil, spiritual, or otherwise), and serve others in this capacity.  This role comes to constitute who we are, while at the same time we shape and define what exactly this role will be.  The majority of those present at the wedding I attended were members of our church.  In this case obscurity was dissolved and it became plain as day just how we were all connected and how we shaped the identity of one another.  In the season of weddings, ordinations, and an impending new semester, it can be helpful to see who we have committed ourselves to, both voluntarily and involuntarily.