{"id":382,"date":"2009-07-23T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/best-wedding-processional-ever.html"},"modified":"2009-07-23T23:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T23:43:00","slug":"best-wedding-processional-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/best-wedding-processional-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"Best wedding processional.  Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I should probably be shocked and wringing my hanky into knots over this.  It&#8217;s clearly not what most of us would have in mind as the proper way for beginning the celebration of a sacrament.  (N.B., it wasn&#8217;t a Catholic wedding.) <\/p>\n<p>But: I loved it anyway.  I couldn&#8217;t stop grinning.  Married life is a dance, and this just <span style=\"font-style:italic\">fits<\/span>.  Beautifully.  Bless &#8217;em.  And bless &#8217;em, especially, for having such great friends to dance with them.   <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.   <\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> I&#8217;ve been moved by the number of people who have told me this video made them cry.  (I thought I was the only one.)  The joy here is infectious, and real, and taps into something deep within all of us &#8212; the desire to express that inexpressible <i>something<\/i> that makes all of us in love want to dance.  <\/p>\n<p>I imagine God feels this way about us, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I should probably be shocked and wringing my hanky into knots over this. It&#8217;s clearly not what most of us would have in mind as the proper way for beginning the celebration of a sacrament. (N.B., it wasn&#8217;t a Catholic wedding.) But: I loved it anyway. I couldn&#8217;t stop grinning. 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