Marriage Is a Leap of Faith

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Would you agree with me when I say marriage is a leap of faith? Here we are today, after many weeks, even months, of planning, your beautiful celebration has come together. All right, maybe not exactly as you planned, but close. It is later than you had originally hoped; it is sooner than you had subsequently planned. But! The only really important detail is that you are here, together, as you will be as long as you both shall live.

This leap of faith you are now taking is the final leap at the end of sort of twisted journey through dreams and hopes, plans and reality. This journey has put you in good stead. You have already learned that things don’t always happen as originally planned. So you already know that married life won't always happen as planned. You will plan your finances carefully, but something will happen that you won't envision. Maybe you have made some plans for the family you will become ... but children may not arrive on schedule, and they may not be as you imagined. You have made career plans, but you will adjust them according to how you develop. Both of you will find your needs and expectations changing over time. You will need to make new plans. Isn’t it wonderful to know that you, as a couple, are already adept at this much needed skill?

As I’ve said, today, you take a leap of faith. And you take this leap because you are individually and together persons of faith. You believe in the Lord who has brought you together. You have excellent reasons for believing you belong together. There is no doubt whatsoever that you belong together. But you do not have guarantees. Instead, you stand together, about to accept on faith the challenge of creating the future together.

The Bible says, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for ...." You marry in faith that God has called you to live as one. You promise to be faithful to one another, in big things as well as small. Your constant faith in each other will give form and substance to the beautiful hopes you have for your future.

Faith is "the conviction of things not seen ...." Unless you are an unusual couple, at times your marriage won't look anything like the vision you celebrate today. You may not feel much evidence of the love you now feel so keenly. At such a time, you must look for evidence, for reasons to hang on to -- in the same faith that brought you here today -- the conviction that God has called you together. In the power of God's love and faithfulness to you, you will find the power to keep loving each other until the sun rises again and romance flowers anew.

Marriage begins with a leap of faith that says "I do, and I will" before an unknown and unknowable future. Marriage is about being full of faith, or faithful, to one another. Faithfulness respects each other's ideas, keeps each other's secrets, guards each other's dignity, and honors each other in public and in private. Faithfulness is built from 10,000 tiny acts of trust and trustworthiness. Starlyn and Ian, you are persons of faith. In such faith, you will find the fulfillment of all the hopes you have today. God bless you both. [1] Amen.


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[1]Adapted from  Sourcebook of Weddings. “A Postmodern Ceremony.” Communication Resources, Inc.: Canton Ohio, 1998. P.48

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