Why Wednesday, and Why in your Kitchen?

Because we're getting married soon, for tax reasons, and that day, at the minister's convenience, and in our kitchen, so we don't have to call it a "rental" and pay a fee.

Today's sermon was a funny, snarky one on marriage whence this quote from Kahlil Gibran:

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

I like that it mentions the temple, so it sounds a little bit Jewish!

ADDENDUM: Turns out that quote was posed, in the sermon, as one of the BAD attitudes about marriage. I was too moved, busy writing, to listen to the commentary! And yes, that is my beloved minister performed the wedding, with that wording and all.

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