A Wedding Disaster... Or Was It? by Sheila Holmes

Author:Sheila Holmes
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: fiction, romance, contemporary, christian

Chapter 23

Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen... These lights definitely are not coming back on! Lord, what are you doing? Eighteen, nineteen, twenty... Jesus, this is my wedding. This isn't supposed to happen! You're supposed to make this into the most wonderful and memorable night of my life! Twenty-one, twenty-two... What do we do if the lights just simply don't ever come back on? Lord, I can hear people starting to whisper. And, I hear that little girl crying. She's scared of the dark. Jesus, please... We need a miracle!

*****

They had been plunged into darkness not more than fifteen seconds when Pastor Jerry felt his left arm being squeezed by Reverend Reeves, who was now leaning in and whispering to him.

"Jerry, I'll take care of this. I'm leaving in the next few seconds. You're going to have to keep this going. I've got an idea.

"Go ahead and give the welcome and talk with the congregation about how Christians view marriage as opposed to the world’s view. Then, if I'm still gone, go ahead and give the couple their marriage charge. If not before, I should be back by the end of that part. If not, improvise, Brother.

"And, make sure the bride and her father don't move from where they are. They aren't to begin walking up the aisle until they see light.

"Got it?"

"Got it."

With a deep breath and a calm resolve, Pastor Jerry began.

"Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here even in the darkness of this moment to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony."

Total quiet and calm entered the Lord's House at this moment.

"There are two very important illuminations that must come together to place this couple in God's Hand as one. One is light within this room so that this couple has the ability to find each other, and the second is the illumination that can only come from God's Word.

"To the bride and groom, in your current separate locations in this sanctuary, I would say to you that it is actually something good the Lord has done this evening in letting you have these moments with no light. It gives you the opportunity to tune out all other things and exclusively think on what marriage is, as God designed it..."

With the affirmation of Pastor Jerry that he would "hold down the fort,” and having begun words of welcome to all the wedding guests, Reverend Reeves turned and dashed in the darkness down the side stairs of the stage, turned left and half-walked, half-ran down the outside aisle until he passed through the small door that led into the narthex. (He and Pastor Jerry had been in their official positions on the stage, standing side-by-side, awaiting the bride to be brought forward and joined with her groom, where they would vow before God and this assembly to love, honor, and cherish each other until death would part them.)

It was fortunate that he had been at this church for decades now and could navigate almost every square inch of it blindfolded, because that is exactly what was needed at this moment.

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