A Royal Wedding

There are few things that can get me out of bed at 4:30 in the morning. This morning was one of those rare occasions: a royal wedding.

Note that I knew very little about the wedding before Tuesday when I was invited to view it at 4:30 in the morning and I have not followed the royal family since I was a twelve year old girl convinced Prince Harry would marry me (that was before the drugs and the rehab, and after I concluded that Prince William was really not that attractive. Besides, as my mother would testify, Harry looks quite a bit like my kindergarten crush on the principal's son). But there I was, sitting on the floor of a dark apartment with a cup of black coffee and a blueberry scone, commenting on everything from the ruffled collars of the choir boys to the rather prim and bored expressions of the Prince.

All of that was frivolity and entertaining. What amazed me, was how God spoke through it.

I'm coming to an end of my Romans 12 semester and it has been an adventure. In some ways, I feel like I have grown more through it and in some ways, I feel like it was all meaningless. Yet, I keep having these verses run through my head and the thought of community done rightly at the forefront of my mind. Sitting at a banquet I wasn't too sure I wanted to attend, I heard someone commission my graduating class with my verse of the week, "Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be conceited. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all." (says something about what the junior class thinks of the senior class, doesn't it?)

At 4:30 in the morning, sitting in my pajamas eating homemade biscotti and sipping coffee, I hear Princess Kate's brother read Romans 12:9-12, the summary of all the verses I have read thus far this semester.

Who knows what it means except that I am being reminded of what I am learning and how crucial these words are to my life and the Christian life, generally. So, if God brings these verses back into my head while I gush over a lovely wedding dress and a glorious wedding ceremony, I'll take them and remember that all of my life, even the passive moments, are to look like Romans 12:9-21.