The Morning After the Wedding

It is suddenly quiet in our house. We’ve been crying on the couch for the past two hours, so overwhelmed by gratitude that I don’t see how we’ll be getting up any time soon.

He put these words to it: “Last night, the love we have for each other exploded so that everyone got to feel it, embody it, got to hang onto it with us.”

We’ve recalled moments and names of so many who came, saying them like prayer beads, and it occurs to me that the gratitude we feel for one another has blurred with the gratitude for our people. And that’s what this whole thing is, I think. It is finding a person who wakes us up to the gratitude. It is loving a person and through that loving waking up to the Love all around us.

I love you, Josh. And in loving you, I feel I can love the whole world.