It is that time of year when "May Flies" begin to propogate the Lake Winnebago area. These are ugly flies (they are not small) that you don't want to crush because the leave great big gobs of greasy green staining guts. There are times when so many land on a screen that they can actually block the sun from coming in a window. The May Fly phenomenon lasts for a week or two and then it is over till next year.
Here is the real story! May Flies live 24 hours and then they die. Imagine being a May fly. You get up in the morning, have breakfast, go to school, have some fun, fall asleep and die. It is a human's life in a microcosm form. So as a May Fly, your life is short and you never have a chance to accomplish much. A human being lives 30,000 times longer than a May Fly. A May Fly life is pretty insignificant.
Shakespear has a quote in one of his plays that "life is but a fleeting second in eternity". The idea is that your life in the perspective of all eternity is also pretty insignificant. In fact your life is so short in relation to forever that a blink of an eye is a generous discription. Our feeble human minds can not comprehend the concept of forever. As Margaret might say, it is a fricking long time.
When a minister says "do you take this person to have and to hold forever" there is no comprehension of what that means. Forever is so long that it can not be understood.
So when Deb and Tom say "I do", they are doing so in the context of forever and don't know what they are doing. All the other people in the world that have married didn't know what they were doing either. Wait a minute, I got married?
It is now 15 days and counting.
Love,
Dad