My Vision

A Joyful Experience Of A Wedding

I have held a vision for a number of years about the people of the world holding each other’s hands across all countries with love and in peace.  Religion, race, creed, customs have held us from doing this, and likely will continue to do so until we decide that others are as much a child of God as we are.

I have wanted to teach throughout the world that we are truly the same in our desires to have a good life, love and cherish our families, have joys and tears along with all the human emotions that everyone else has regardless of  religion, race, creed, or station in life.  What we don’t know about other religions, races, and customs of other peoples becomes fear.  If we could dispel fear learning the truth of our fellow mankind, then peace could become a reality sooner.  We all were created by the same God and breathe the same air as our neighbors, so I see all as God’s children.

In a wedding which I preformed recently, I had the joy of seeing my vision in the the couple being married.  My bride was a Unitarian, the groom was a Moslem, and the best man was Jewish.  They loved and cared for each other as God meant for us to do.  They had already had a marriage service at a mosque, but the bride also wanted a spiritual service in keeping with her own faith.

When I spoke with the groom, who was from Bangladesh, I could see that many of the myths that keep us apart were false.  The groom had spotted a flag of his country in our church.  He asked if he could have it down to be visible during the ceremony. I told him that we could replace the Christian flag normally in view with his flag, but he did not want to replace the Christian flag even with his country's flag.  We had planned a prayer in which I had decided to replace one reference to God with Allah, but the groom said that “God had many names of which Allah was one, but it was the same God by whatever name God was called ”.

The participants in this wedding have given me hope that the world can change, and that the vision that I hold can become a true reality.  I have seen it, and we can all see it again and again until it is forever.