COMMENTARY: Here come the brides—May the Force be with them

So I’m sitting around with some younger friends the other day and we start talking about what songs were played at their weddings. One couple left the church to the Beatles’ “She’s So Heavy.” I tried to imagine such a lyric at my parents’ wedding in the golden days of crooning, the 1940’s, when “love-at-first-sight” […]

So I’m sitting around with some younger friends the other day and we start talking about what songs were played at their weddings. One couple left the church to the Beatles’ “She’s So Heavy.” I tried to imagine such a lyric at my parents’ wedding in the golden days of crooning, the 1940’s, when “love-at-first-sight” romances seemed so common. As I get older, weddings seem bittersweet events, because more often than not hopefulness has been replaced by fear. My friend Jeff said they entered the church to the theme from “Star Wars.” Now there is the right mix of fear and hope. A dark side that seeks to do us harm can be defeated or at least neutralized if we learn to use the force for good. The good guy can get the girl and live happily ever after.

(Dick Staub is the author of “The Culturally Savvy Christian” and the host of The Kindlings Muse (http://www.thekindlings.com). His blog can be read at http://www.dickstaub.com)


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