15th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302 Introduction. When Lorie and I got married in the late 1970s, one of the things that we wanted as a part of our wedding was to have our maid of honor, Amy, who is a professor of dance at the University of New York at Stonybrook, present an interpretive dance to the singing of the Lord's Prayer. In all honesty, it was rather lovely.
Weddings can be a time of great joy, but they can also be a time of great consternation.
Whether it is a plan to have an interpretive dance in the ceremony, or strained family relationships, or anxiety over travel schedules, or attending to all the last minute details, weddings can bring many unexpected challenges. That was true for a while at my own wedding, but it was also true for the wedding in the parable of the passage we have read together this morning. The Indifference of Israel. Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.