Dear friends,
How was your week? How are you feeling now? I hope you are having a good time and have a good weekend with your family and loved ones, because this life is too good to be wasted by dwelling on negative thoughts. People has been posting images about the Miri’s sakura, and about the spring is coming to Miri. I find it amusing though, never in my life I heard about it before in Miri.
As for me, 18 May was spent immortalising memories for both Garnette and Ayrton, and their family and friends at St Francis’ Chapel, Miri, gathering together for their wedding blessing with celebrant Father Martin Vincent Sta. Garnette is a friendly person and she get along with everyone easily and she is truly an expressive person, with the ability to speak more than 5 languages. The warmth that radiates from her caught the attention of Ayrton, whom has a cooler persona, a bit like a Malaysian oppa, but equally friendly as well. Like the old adage said, opposite attracts. Both of them complements one another, and that is the reason why they are meant to be together, as it was written by God, somewhere inside His master plan up high in heaven.
It was a beautiful Saturday morning where everyone dresses elegantly to celebrate the big day between these two hearts. It was not an easy journey for them as they faced their own fair share of hardship, but that does not matter because two hearts in love can overcome all odds.
There is also a reading that keeps on playing in my mind whenever there is a wedding blessing, from Genesis 2:18-24:
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam, no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
This verse explained about the origin of woman from Christian’s perspective, which is the one that completes a man. So is Garnette to Ayrton, and together they will embark their journey in the new chapter of their lives. Not as two, but as one. In Catholic, a person can only marry once because Sacrament of Matrimony is “covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring”, and which “has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptised.” (CIC can 1055). Therefore, it has to be honoured as such, and every faithful Catholic should uphold this at all time, throughout their lives.
As for the wedding ceremony, praise the Lord, it went on smoothly without any hiccup. The event was continued with the long, awaited photoshoot between the families and friends, with second part of the event at St Joseph’s Multipurpose Hall. After the lunch, there was a cake-cutting, wedding bouquet tossing event as well as toast to wish the best for the newlyweds.There was an audio system around, where Ryan and I did not waste the opportunity to sing a couple of songs to entertain the crowd.
Congratulations to both of you and as usual, always remember this: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails” – (1 Corinthians 13:4-8).
With this, I end my post and may God bless the two of you, Garnette and Ayrton!
Your Tukang Rantek,
Claudius Weson
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