the power of preconceptions
I did a wedding recently for a couple with some pagan background and a strong sense of the holiness of nature. The text I wrote and delivered (according to their guidelines) spoke of the garden we were in as sacred ground, of the divine power of love and the divinity that is present wherever people gather for the sake of love, and of the couple as incarnating the God and Goddess.
Afterward, a guest came up to me and said how much he had enjoyed the ceremony. "I really liked the non-religious nature of it," he said. "Do you always do secular weddings?"
I think it was one of the most religious ceremonies I've done, actually. But it wasn't Christian, and I never spoke of an external deity. And so it didn't ping him as "religious" at all. I'm fascinated.
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Afterward, a guest came up to me and said how much he had enjoyed the ceremony. "I really liked the non-religious nature of it," he said. "Do you always do secular weddings?"
I think it was one of the most religious ceremonies I've done, actually. But it wasn't Christian, and I never spoke of an external deity. And so it didn't ping him as "religious" at all. I'm fascinated.
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