There’s a spontaneous moment captured digitally as my husband is seen running after the newlywed’s limo as it drove away from the reception. What a contrast: the father of the bride processed his daughter in happily and proudly earlier, and yet at the end of the day, he is frantically catching up to them as though he’s rethought this and wants back his “little girl”. Even though he did that in fun, it is easy to appreciate that moment when you realize that transformation has occurred and we must respond in a new way. Sometimes our response is to “freak out”. Our little girl is not “ours” anymore. She looks the same, but through this covenant, she is now one with her husband. This is the mystery of the sacrament of marriage. The world teaches us that this is all baloney that marriage is only a contract between two people, but my heart chooses to believe in what I don’t see and what I know. Jesus said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be jointed to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let no man separate.” (Matt 19:4-7)
This is what happens when you embrace a life of Christian faith; you are challenged to see through new eyes, to be holy, to embrace change, and to remember that no matter how difficult that change can be, God promises us to be there with us every step of the way.
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