Absent in those little hands and soft flesh is the harsher side of life. Those angelic babes make us rush to baptism and pray God that He would preserve their lives. Make us children, we pray, and preserve us from evil. In the middle of life lies marriage. Marriage is the doorway to adulthood where parents set youth's vigor and passion free to explore and conquer life for a greater good.
Weddings have so much joy.
They remind us of our own marriages - for better and for worse and for better again. Marriage means that our kids are now ready for responsibility and purpose. In them we see our life multiplying, creating more life. But weddings are also sad. What was ours is no longer ours.