Covenants part 2.

Maybe it's cause I'm a pastor but I like reading about wedding/birth/death announcements. I like to know who's coming and who's going. Those seem to be the only times in our lives when everyone looks their best.

I'll never forget the time that I was in a grocery store and talking to a girl behind the counter about the huge sparkling ring (that she was clearly taking a while getting used to) adorning her finger. When I asked her about her fiancee, she said, "we've been living together for 5 years and I was going to break up with him the same night he asked me to marry him." Weird? Yeah that's what I thought. Basically, she said she wasn't getting anything out of the relationship and that the ring was a sign that he was going to change and things were going to get better. Grocery stores are not the place to do counseling. I left with a good luck. (hope I didn't sound too sarcastic.)

I wonder what their ceremony was like. I wonder if their vows were about what they were expecting to get rather than receive. Instead of the "I promise to's", I wonder if they said, "I expect to have...". Everyone seems to feel so entitled these days. The world and everyone in it owes them. So when life doesn't pan out, they're goners and God is to blame. Here's an irony. People don't believe in God. But they have no trouble blaming Him when stuff doesn't go their way.