But the point he made that day has reverberated powerfully through our married life. It was based on the first four words of his text: “In the beginning, God . . .” A wedding was a new beginning, he said, and there would be many other new beginnings in the future. The foundation for every new beginning was that God should be in on it. We have proved him right. What would a beginning be without God? The universe itself couldn’t have started without him.
