Normal Things To Do...
It's a normal thing to do when you are in love...Get married. Two of our street kids got married yesterday. It looked and sounded like any other wedding you might go to...except for the fact that they got married in a "warehouse-looking" drop-in-center for homeless youth. A place where there where a couple of homeless teens sleeping on a couch nearby. Those are at least two ways this wasn't a "normal" wedding. It struck me that they were extremely happy, like any other couple. However, it bothered me that after their ceremony that instead of going on a honeymoon, they went back to their ten. A tent hidden amid some bushes near downtown Denver...
It also completely befuddled my brain that the bride's father was present and gave her away. I wondered, "How does a father get to a point in his relationship with his daughter that he doesn't care whether or not she lives on the street and doesn''t do anything about it?"
I don't understand how he can can give his daughter away to a guy that lives in a tent and doesn't have a job. As a father of a little girl, I can't fathom why he didn't come to the wedding, apologize for his mistakes, and then save her from a chaotic life by taking her home. Besides my emotions, every other aspect of this event was that of a normal wedding.
I started to think that it all just goes to show that these beautiful souls are just like you and I. They want to get married, have a honeymoon, and have their friends be really happy for them...and I am glad that my friends have love. I am happy for them in their new marriage and I pray for them as I do for all my non-homeless friends who get married.
I pray....
"Father, Bless them. Protect them. Help them to seek you within their marriage and give them the will to stay together, even when they don't feel like it. -Amen- "
