Two Posts in One Day?

I went to a wedding this weekend. The guy who married the happy couple was the same deacon who married my wife and I. Now, I'm not a terrily religious person...but I'll give it a shot.

He spoke of the sacrifice that Christ made by dying for us. (Stay with me here. If you're uncomfortable with talking about Christ, then you can analogize it to any mortal sacrifice made for others. A soldier on the battlefield, a fireman, anyone who sets themselves in harms way to save the life of another. It's just that Christ did it for people's souls. I digress.)

Anyway, he went on to talk about how when we get married that we are sacrificing ourselves as well. We give our lives to the one we love. When we add children, we give even more of our lives to them.

As I sat there, mearly bored to tears by the faceless and generic wedding, I realized how right he was. My life is not the life it was before I was married. It is completely changed. And the same can be said about my wife's. And now that the kids are here, our combined life has changed that much more. Yes we had children early in our marriage, but that seems to have worked out for us. Our children are experiencing our life as it comes together. They get to mold a part of that original imprint of our relationship.

I don't really have an ending to this post. It was an insight. That's what I do. Insight.