Wedding Witness

I woke up thinking about a young friend who was about to be married, and this verse from the book of Hebrews entered my head: "Seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us run with patience the race that is set before us..." Michaela was going to be in the midst of her extended family and close friends who would also be looking at her dress, her groom, her facial expression, her life from this day forward, to see what kind of mark she was going to make on the world in this new phase of her life. What I saw when I looked at her was the same sweet, trusting, little-girl smile I had seen on her face all of her life. We wish her the absolute best happily-ever-after.