28 September 2007

My sister-in-law read this at my sister's wedding last month. Kara is going to read it this weekend at the wedding of her college roommate, Emily Kirk. I think it is simple yet true.



Why is it that people get married?
Because we need a witness to our lives.
There’s a billion people on the planet (actually six billion plus)
What does any one life really mean?
But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything…
The good things, the bad things,
All of it… all the time, every day.
You’re saying “Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it.
Your life will not go unwitnessed - because I will be your witness.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, those are some great words! Thanks for sharing with us.

Anonymous said...

thats a quote from "Shall We Dance"... good words.

Josh Graves said...

"Shall We Dance"--is that a movie or a book?

Eric, glad you're back...how was your trip to the north country?

Anonymous said...

It's a movie with Richard Gere... who I would be okay with marrying if he were not quite so many decades older than me.