Some pictures from the wedding! My boyfriend John, is a Loyola graduate from '09 and now a 1st Lieutenant in the Army. This is us before the wedding with his father's vintage DeSoto. It's the car the bride and groom took from St. Paul's Catholic Church in Lexington to the reception.
I don't think anybody grows up in the perfect household, with their parents setting an example of a perfect marriage. There is no such thing as perfect, since as humans we are all flawed, and therefore there is no "perfect" relationship. But what is it that makes a relationship last? Now not many couples make it until "Death do us part" part of a relationship. But how many people walk down the aisle, look each other in the eyes and don't mean those words as they say them? Nobody who marries also plans on getting divorced, so why is it that between 40 and 50 percent of American marriages end in divorce? (divorcestatistics.org) I honestly have no answer for this, and attending my boyfriend's sisters wedding a couple of weekends ago didn't have a huge impact on me. I didn't feel any movement within my soul that left me with some type of divine wisdom to a happy, long marriage. So I am asking you, Father Ted, perhaps you have some type of knowledge to this. After marrying many couples and I'm sure counseling a few, do you think you have an idea of what keeps people together?
Since that wasn't long enough for a blog post I will talk a little about my personal hero. My hero is my grandmother. I have never met someone with as much optimism and love as her. She is always sunny and happy to meet and talk to anyone. Even in her older age, dealing with congestive heart failure, she never stops trying to make others happy. She also has so much faith in God and never quits praising him, no matter what may be going on in life. She is strong, but she doesn't do it all on her own, it is because of her faith. If I can live my life half with as much happiness, optimism and faith as her, I will know I've led a great life.
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