Yesterday was the wedding of my nephew.  An Episcopal or Catholic "father" performed the ceremony.  The ceremony, including all of the prayers, was read out of a book.  One of the prayers was a "keep your eyes open prayer" that required six amens by the congregation.  Once upon a time I memorized the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians because it was so beautiful.  That's the chapter on charity.  At the wedding the "father" read excerpts from that chapter.  It wasn't recognizable, however, because the word charity was changed to love.  All of the other words were changed, too, as they've done with the new Bible versions to make things more understandable.  It was not beautiful.  The new versions have rewritten the 23rd Psalm, too.  This amazes me.  Margie points out that they haven't rewritten Shakespeare yet to make him more understandable.  Apparently Satan doesn't care about Shakespeare.

The trouble with our society and their attitude toward marriage is summed up in that word "casual" that my nephew used in his wedding invitation.  Our society has a casual attitude about marriage.  Maybe people will get married, and maybe they won't.  Maybe they'll stay married, and maybe they won't.  Maybe marriage is important, and maybe it isn't.  The ceremony itself is trivialized.  These people have no conception of what a marriage is or can be.  There is a light year of difference between that wedding and a temple wedding.