Relevant Magazine

Celebration Is a Spiritual Discipline

Celebration Is a Spiritual Discipline

Thursday, June 4, 2026
My husband and I had the honor of officiating our eldest son’s wedding this summer. After the ceremony, all one hundred guests gathered under an enormous tent in our front yard where tables laden with hundreds of sunflowers, heaps of perfectly prepared barbecue, and ice cold root beers awaited them. We toasted, feasted, remembered, laughed…