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Today was one of the most beautiful days in my life. I can’t quite explain how or why it came to be that but I’ll do my best.
Today was the wedding of Emily and Martin. It was the best wedding I have been to in my life. It made me cry a lot. But the tears were of joy not sorrow. From the moment the bridesmaids started walking down the aisle to colour blind by Counting Crows, (played acoustically by two fantastic musicians) I was sold. The day and the service were both so authentic, a true expression of love.
I am a very cynical person and yet the whole service I did not have a cynical or even sarcastic thought. Every stage of it was true to the people involved. The vow’s and prayers were honest and extremely meaningful. Declarations like “Do you want to share your life with me, all your joys and pains, all your hopes and failures with all your body, mind and soul?” Are truly moving. The way they included God also was great.
The music was well chosen. It fit beautifully with the service. The messages given were very authentic. They somehow managed to get a Catholic, an Anglican and a Uniting Church minister together to run it.
The reception was also great. It was very homely, who would of thought it being in their house and all. I loved it also. Speeches that are usually the most painful part of the wedding were good. Martin’s Mum who has come out from Peru for the wedding was particularly good. Emily of course was great and Jo was fantastic too. However Martin simply shone in his speech, sure he stumbled through it but his feeling was there for all too see. Struggling to put into words (in English his second language, though I am sure he would have had trouble in Spanish too) what is surely his great love for Emily just made it all the more real.
The variety of people who were there was also outstanding. There were people from nearly every walk of life. So good to see that happen. The food was fantastic and all were genuinely happy about the wedding (as far as I could tell). I even joined in some dancing tonight. That’s how good the night was.
Emily is a person who has greatly enriched my life. It is wonderful too see her so happy. Her journey has not been very easy through this life. She is an inspiration in her passion for justice and her love of humans particularly the outsider.
I can remember finding out a bit about Martin in Australia whilst Emily was still over in Peru. Gemma’s trip there helped us too learn a bit more about him. Then sharing with Emily in the struggles of trying to get Martin a Visa. I can still remember the joy and excitement I felt when whilst in Raxaul I find out that Martin’s Visa had been processed and accepted. The other time I really remember is meeting Martin at the airport on my return from India. It was exciting to finally see him, he embraced me a stranger as his friend.
Martin who I barely know is still one of the most kind and openhearted people I have met.
Emily and Martin may the Lord God in His power truly bless you. May you live out your days together through the joys and pains of this life. May you live up to the grand promises you made today.
I am going too stop now, though I could go on forever. But it’s past midnight so the day is over.
This world sucks 3 million people die of TB each year which is a treatable and curable disease. This is due to a lack of access to the correct drugs and diagnostics.
At the same time India has passed a patent law that prevents Indian companies from reverse engineering the new AIDS and TB drugs. At least the law allows them to countinue making the ones they have developed.
When the hell will the companies of this world stop holding the developing world ransom for profit. Screw profit let the people have the drugs at a fair price.
I bag out Fusion a lot for a bunch of little things.
In all serious though they do some top quality stuff. I think it’s good to have organisations like Fusion committed to showing love to our youth. Particularly youth at risk. Good on you guys for fighting the good fight in our local communities. I think that our youth at risk are an important area for social justice in Australia. Keep up the good work!
Keep innovating!
Disclamer. Even after all that I am not joining Fusion. Not my fight.
I just watched a Hindi film and it inspired me. It was about this Indian mafiaish guy who goes to med school. He tries to cheer up patients and help them out. One of the things he does is give magic hugs. Unfortunately there is no one up at the momment to hug.
Shame.
I don’t hug enough these days. I wish I was more of a hugger. Oh well.
Hugs to all you out there in the blogsphere.
Does anyone want to have lunch with me in Hornsby today?
At work at the moment. Before I was listening to some Arabic music for work. Now I am listening to test sounds. I like the noise of a 100hz sine wave. It’s nice and low. Sounds a bit like a plane or something. It makes me want to jump on a plane.
I sometimes do strange things like this at work. We even have whole CD’s full of these test sounds. I reckon I could drive someone crazy with just one of those CD’s.