wedding

 My final assignment for my pastoral ministry class was to perform a fucntion of the church from a list of three events that might happen during an extended stay working at a church.The three things to choose from were perform a baby dedication, a funeral, and a wedding. Neil was the first to pick and he picked the baby dedication. The next to pick was Larry who choose the funeral, who by the way did a great job and if I go be with the Lord before Larry I just might get him to do my funeral. I got the last one, which was the wedding. After studying and praying about how I should do it. I asked a couple from my home group if they woul participate and they said yes. The ceremony went from doing a wedding to a renewal of vows. Charlie and madi had been married a number of years and were excited to be doing it. The morning of my class, when I was to present my wedding Charlie’s wife called me six oclock in the morning from the hospital to tell me that her husband was in the hospital with what turned out to be a very bad viral infection. Once I learned this I had to scramble to fill in with somone else so I was going to use my son’s friends as standins. That night at class, I was waiting for Tom to arrive at class. Tom came into class and asked about my couple. I went on to explain the situation and Tom began to smile. Not more then two seconds later his wife Sherry walked in the classroom. I perform the renewal of vows on Tom and Sherry and even though a little nervous I did my duty. Looking back, I thought about Issac and Abraham when he was aked to sacrifice his son. The angel stopped his hand and to show God goodness he gave Abraham a sacrifice, a ram in the thicket, well Tom and Sherry were my ram in the thicket so to speak. My God is faithful even in the little details of my life that other people might not see as important, but I do. Thank you God for being my supplier, my caretaker and my friend.