There were no bridesmaids. There was no photographer; Just the bride and groom and the Charleston Wedding Pastor. Three figures standing, facing each other In the white-columned gazebo by Charleston Harbor at historic Battery Park. There were a retired couple, who both had lost their mates. Now dressed to the hilt, they had walked from…

They were young and from out-of-state. They called to tell me “We’d like a Charleston wedding on the beach.” The day was set, A Saturday in July, we met on Folly Beach and the rain was falling down in sheets. We sloshed through puddles and soggy sand. The sea and sky were an impossible grey…

We were on a wedding boat, the Carolina Belle, cruising the Charleston Harbor.  The bride and groom were from Pennsylvania.  They, with family and friends, were jovial and well-focused as we gathered for the ceremony on the top deck. There was talk of great joinings, including heaven and earth’s, as we idled beneath the Ravenel…

“…The God of Moses and the burning bush has raised you up to be emancipators of each other, to lead each other out of the fear world, the anger world, the guilt world, the world of being enslaved by stress, by the law’s too high demands. You are together to liberate talents, to enhance visions,…

Always enhance each other.  “Be joyful in hope, patient in tribulation, steadfast in prayer.”  What a good verse that is, Romans 12:12, to make your marriage motto. Stay brightly tuned.  Keep offering you up.  Yearn for the soaring heights of expanded awareness.  Look into each other’s eyes, see the Lord unfailing there. Let Christ light…

“…She danced into your life at Club Babalu.  You were drawn to her as she flashed by in the meringue.  First chance you got you spoke to her. And, at once, her fluency intrigued you.  She talked English, Spanish, and then a language all her own.  She smiled her great smile.  And to your heart it…

“Love one another; it’s the Lordly thing to do.  It’s the start engine to reverse the world’s penchant for uncare and evil.  You began as good-Samaritan, good neighbors.  Stay on that track.  Don’t pass by indifferently; don’t get in that habit.  Stop everything.  Get down with each other.  Give you, till it hurts; then give…