Wedding Songs

Perhaps this comes appropriate, reading Fe's blog. I've been drafting this for a while now, and while not getting married any time soon, wanted to document the wedding song I'd always dreamt of as the perfect piece to accompany that obligatory wedding video showing boy and girl growing up so relatives and friends know more about the wedding couple.

I know my best friends aren't religious, and to some extent, I think that the frequently mentioned love triangle of God, Boy and Girl is quite often misused. But in these lyrics (and you should hear the melody, it's even more beautiful with music...) I find the role of God, Boy and Girl ideally expressed. If things should be this way, if this should be the ideal, then may every single boy and girl with God in their hearts as they walk down the aisle think if things this way.

My godbrother is getting married next year to the girl that he's been with since 17. He's my age, and it is freaky on one hand to think that people my age are flocking to the aisle and getting married in throngs, while I am nowhere near getting myself to the aisle. Partly I am also influenced by the French way of considering weddings a horrible waste of money without any real, tangible increase of commitment or love on the part of the couple.

But in another way, I am still dreaming of my white wedding to the one that I love, something that will be denied me for quite a while more, thanks to the complications of real life.


A Page is Turned - Bebo Norman

A page is turned by the wind to a boy in curly grin
With a world to conquer at the age of ten
But as history unfolds and the story book is told
He finds salvation, but not at the hands of man

And the God of second chance
Picked him up and He let him dance
Through a world that is not kind
And all this time, preparing him the one
To hold him up when he comes undone
Beneath the storm, beneath the sun
And now a man, here you stand
Your day has come

A page is turned in this world to reveal a little girl
With a heart that's bigger as it is unfurled
By the language in her soul that's teaching her to grow
With a careful cover of love that will not fail

And the God of second chance
Picked her up and He let her dance
Through a world that isn't kind
And all this time preparing her the one
To hold her up when she comes undone
Beneath the storm, beneath the sun
And grown up tall, here you are
Your day has come

Beneath the air of autumn, she took him by his hand
And warm within the ardour, she took his heart instead
And high upon the mountain, he asked her for her hand
Just for her hand

A page is turned in this life, he's making her his wife
And there is no secret to the source of this much life
When the grace that falls like rain is washing them again
Just a chance to somehow rise above this land

Where the God of second chance
Will pick them up and He'll let them dance
Through a world that is not kind
And all this time, they're sharing with the one
That holds them up when they come undone
Beneath the storm, beneath the sun
And once again, here you stand
And once again, here you stand
Your day has come