Editorial August 26, 1996 Issue

In the midnight hour—a wedding!

Mary Metzner Trammell

In the ancient Middle East, weddings were usually in the middle of the night. Nowadays, weddings are mostly in the daytime. That's the way it was with a man I know, a man we could simply call Joe. Something you might call a "wedding" took place for him not long ago, around noon by the clock. But, looking at it another way, you could say it happened at midnight—in what looked like, for him, a very dark hour.

Weddings are a time of mutual commitment—of love covenanting between individuals who care for each other in the deepest way. And these individuals agree to live together in oneness that never varies and never wanes.

Jesus Christ himself commended the sacredness of this kind of union, where husband and wife knit their lives together so tightly that they're as "one flesh." And he felt that no one should interfere with this relationship. "What therefore God hath joined together," he said, "let not man put asunder" (Mark 10:9).

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