Didn't get enough Royal Wedding coverage? Here is just one more, not about Kate's dress or the menagerie of hats, but about the ceremony, more specifically the words spoken and their meanings.
We hear words like these so often at weddings that they tend to roll over our heads. As do the wedding vows:
I, William Arthur Philip Louis, take thee Catherine Elizabeth to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God’s holy law, and thereto I give thee my troth …
Yet in those words can be found the very bedrock of a culture. In many circles today marriage is falling out of fashion. Yet I think we instinctively understand that marriage, when properly understood and practiced, provides the stability of unconditional love and commitment that we need as adults. And this, in turn, creates the type of home environment our children need.
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