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Practicing Lip Service
Instead of Life Service
by Jennifer Workman
M
any people get married every
day and there are no shortages
of ceremonies that transpire at
different times during the year.
People incorporate a lot of time, energy and
money to make sure the wedding festivities
are perfect and a day that the couple will
never forget. When the day actually comes,
the “soon to be bride and groom” are very
excited and anxious and prepares them-
selves accordingly. Finally, they are march-
ing down the aisle and are professing their
love for one another and vowing to commit
to each other for life.
But I wonder, amidst all of the excite-
ment of the day, was the couple deeply
contemplative of all that is required of a
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married couple or to make a marriage work?
When they vow to “love and cherish each
other, to be there for each other through
sickness and health, for richer or poorer
or until death do we part,” do they really
understand “the words that are proceeding
from their mouths” and that they will
encounter tests and storms in life that will
test their devotion and commitment to each
other, if it is really genuine and heartfelt, or,
if what they have professed before God and
each other was “just practicing lip service
instead of life service?” Because like it or
not, many couples that “have gone before
them” “have been there and done that.”
They were excited, ready to get married and
really anticipated having a successful and