A Force Even More Divine

So the funny thing about today's wedding was that the officiant, an unpredictable fellow who didn't know the happy couple all too well, made the decision, unknown to all of us, to feature me prominently in his homily.  He started off something like this: "Three years ago, a couple met at a party.  They had only two things in common: a belief in a higher being, and a friend named Sherry."  At which point he turned to me, in my seat up on stage in front of the whole congregation where I was sitting with the other reader, and smiled and pointed me out to the assembled throng.  So then he continues: "We all should thank Sherry, of course, for bringing the happy couple together, and for her instincts that the two of them would like one another."  And he turns to me again with the pause and the smile and the big gesture.  I'm sitting up there wondering whether I'm supposed to wave, or what?  "But there was another force in their lives, besides Sherry," (another gesture in my direction) "a force even more divine than Sherry," (at which I'm tempted to roll my eyes, ham it up a little -- a force more divine than me? how could it be?), "a presence that knew the couple even more intimately than Sherry...."  I'm thinking, should I reassure the congregation that I don't know the couple as 'intimately' as all that?  It goes on like this for a while.  From where I'm sitting I can see the bride watching him closely, and maybe it's just me imagining it but her smile is a little forced and she's looking like she doesn't have complete confidence in this guy and what he's going to say next. 

He actually did quite a good job, once he got off of me and the Force Even More Divine Than Sherry and got onto the couple and their journey into a deep and solid love.  But it was a very funny beginning.   

Comments

[ms]

weird. one mention of the mutual-friend-who-brought-them-together is cute and appropriate, but more than that is just misplaced spotlight. maybe he was going to mention your blog but then rethought it at the last minute....

[Dylan]

Maybe you should start your own religion. Worshippers surely won't be hard to find.