R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Thoughts

"Love never fails."
I Corinthians 13:8

I love weddings. My nephew is getting married today and his rehearsal dinner was last night. That night is just about my favorite part of weddings. That's the intimate family night. That's the night of toasts from parents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and close friends. That's the night of memories and tears and celebrating family and marriage and love. Another reason I love weddings is all of the generations celebrating together and a sense of hopefulness in the hearts of all. After my midlife divorce, weddings were very very hard for me. They were exercises in endurance. After my divorce, every wedding brought back the solemn fact that my own marriage was over. But through the years since then, I have learned to look at marriages and weddings and not be heartbroken. I still cry, but I cry tears of joy because an end of your marriage is not the end of love. It's not the end of hope or joy. Humans are imperfect, but love is perfect and we always have the choice to love. So today, at my nephew's wedding I will cry. But I will cry because of the enduring indefeatable reality of love that each one of us in this world can choose to embrace ... whether we are married or not.

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
I Corinthians 13:13