A MOMENT IN PRAYER
In this photo, my good friend Marco Lam and I sit deeply in prayer. We are together, under an enormous oak tree, at the wedding of our close mutual friend, Mathew Gerson. As our grey hair demonstrates, we are well into the middle of our lives, and Mathew is no exception.
It seems important to say that this is Mathew’s first wedding. By now, we have all graduated from the wild inebriation of celebrations past. Replacing the escapism via intoxication is a potent reverence for the ceremony, and our deepest prayers that Mathew and Colleen are able to navigate the joyous challenge that is marriage.
The three of us have travelled different journeys, all colliding on this beautiful day within the embrace and protection of the aura of this mighty tree. The feeling of the strength of the trunk, the gravitas of the roots, and the canopy of branches and leaves envelopes the ceremony, and, if all is well, holds Mathew and Colleen in its spirit for many decades to come.