THE RIB OF CREATION ✍️🤔

Till a few years ago, when we received a wedding invitation, it was mostly addressed to my Mum and Dad; and I was always just included in the “and family” part of the card. (Something that I hate very much, by the way; because even close relatives who know my name, often referred to me as 'fly.'…Extremely irritating!!!🙄 I can’t understand why people don’t write all the names on a wedding card, especially when they know every member of the family. I just think that it makes the invite more personal...But anyway, that’s my opinion.)

Over the past couple of years though, things began to change. My name suddenly began to appear on some of the wedding invitations, and I began to receive a number of invites that were addressed, only to me. 

This was all new and exciting, because now, it was no longer friends of my parents who were getting married, but my own classmates and friends from school and college, the friends in my building that I played with as a kid, the friends in my choir and youth group in the parish.

With every passing year, the number of wedding invitations have increased steadily; so much so, that some of my colleagues in school have often said, “You’ve been going for a lot of weddings lately, haven’t you?”

I guess it’s that stage in life when most people my age, decide that they need to settle down and start a new family together. Many of my friends have been lucky enough to get married to that 'One Special Someone', who started off as being their friend many, many years ago; and after all those years of knowing one another, they decided to turn that long friendship into a 'lifelong relationship of trust and love for one another'.

There have been other friends who’ve met someone just a couple of years ago; and after a year or two of courtship, they’ve decided that this was the person they were meant to spend the rest their lives with.

I felt very happy every single time I heard that some friend of mine was soon to tie the knot. At every wedding of a close friend, that I’ve been for in the past few years, I’ve been overjoyed to see the smiles on the faces of the happy couple. I’ve been a part of some of the wedding preps. as well; and learnt that it can be one of the most difficult jobs on the planet, to plan a wedding.

The amount of things that have to be co-ordinated and done are just never-ending; and that whole year or so of preparation, is just for about 5-6 hours, if you count both the actual wedding ceremony and the reception…But when one thinks of how all of that, is going to make someone’s wedding day memorable; I guess it’s worth the effort and the time spent.

One thing that scares me in this whole situation though, is that suddenly everyone around me seems to be getting married. Gradually the number of 'Single Friends' I have, is beginning to decline.😔

While I feel happy for my married friends, I sometimes envy them because they’ve been blest to find a friend, who eventually became their 'partner for life'.

But more than anything, seeing all these weddings happening around me, makes me think of myself, and wonder, when God will bring the person he has made for me into my life. 

According to the story of creation, Eve was created from one of Adam’s ribs…Just makes me wonder, whose rib was I created from???🤔