The Occasion of the Thirtieth Anniversary

This will have to be edited at a later date, but I need, at last, to get the email containing these song lyrics OUT of my inbox! I emailed them to myself over a month ago upon learning that these songs were sung at my parents wedding, thinking I would soon thereafter include them in a blog. Well, here they are:D.

There's something about listening to people singing at your own parents' wedding when those parents were just about your age. It is both incredible and enlightening, awe-inspiring and tear-evoking, beautiful and almost eerie. My parents, aged 20 and 22; the persons of these beautiful, "old" photos I've loved looking at all my life, being wished a marriage full of God and full of love. And I listen and consider how I, too, want that.

Were my parents once idealistic youths? Am I an idealistic youth? Did the wishes professed in these hand-picked songs come true? Will my own wishes for life and love come true? It's hard to tell; there are many invisible and incomprehensible variables. Regardless of what was, is, and will be, I admire those youthful parents for the lives they set out to live; I admire my raising-kids parents for the standards to which they held us; and I admire my now-parents, for whom they are now.

It's a little melancholy to only now find out, after thirty years, that my parents have a tape of their wedding; however, it is all the more treasured and meaningful because I am the age they were then and I am facing the same sorts of grown-up issues they were then. It's possible that I can appreciate this tape more than if I'd grown up having heard it now and then. Maybe, maybe not, but these are the songs that I've discovered as a result:

"You're a Gift" sung by their pastor's wife
[I have to copy these from a piano book my aunt has...the lyrics can't be found online. Stay tuned; it's really good, thought-provoking, and God-centric!]


"The Troubador" sung by my uncle
He is now to be among you
at the calling of your hearts
Rest assured this troubadour
is acting on His part.
The union of your spirits, here,
has caused Him to remain
for whenever two or more of you
are gathered in His name
there is Love, there is Love.

Well, a man shall leave his mother
and a woman leave her home
and they shall travel on to where
the two shall be as one.
As it was in the beginning
is now and til the end
Woman draws her life from man
and gives it back again.
And there is Love, there is Love.

Well then what's to be the reason
for becoming man and wife?
Is it love that brings you here
or love that brings you life?
And if loving is the answer,
then who's the giving for?
Do you believe in something
that you've never seen before?
Oh there is Love, there is Love.

(Short solo)

Oh the marriage of your spirits here
has caused Him to remain
for whenever two or more of you
are gathered in His name
there is Love, there is Love.


"Lady" by Kenny Rogers, sung by my dad to my mom:D

Lady, I'm your knight in shining armor and I love you
You have made me what I am and I am yours
My love, there's so many ways I want to say I love you
Let me hold you in my arms forever more

You have gone and made me such a fool
I'm so lost in your love
And oh, we belong together
Won't you believe in my song

Lady, for so many years I thought I'd never find you
You have come into my life and made me whole
Forever let me wake to see you each and every morning
Let me hear you whisper softly in my ear

In my eyes I see no one else but you
There's no other love like our love
And yes, oh yes, I'll always want you near me
I've waited for you for so long

Lady, your love's the only love I need
And beside me is where I want you to be
'Cause, my love, there's somethin' I want you to know
You're the love of my life, you're my lady