The Vows

I attended a lovely fall wedding outside overlooking the boats on Friday evening.

The beautiful bride and her charming new husband wrote their own very loving personal vows to each other and their words carried clearly over the microphone through the breeze and into the hearts of all the guests.

I looked around and saw tears well up in everyone's eyes. The tears, I knew, meant something different for each person there.

I saw a young, single girl touched by the emotions of a love that she hoped would someday come her way.

I saw a long married husband put his arm gently around his wife's shoulder.

I watched a widow stiffen.

I noticed a couple whose love had long cooled.

I felt the emotions of those who were divorced...floating memories of their own wedding days and broken dreams.

I heard the words "faith," "hope" and "love" and that famous wedding word
"commitment."

I wish for them a "happily ever after."