I'm not ordained so I cannot do weddings or funerals. But sometimes friends ask me to say a word that is not ordained and binding. It's just me talking. This was the case in the wedding of a former student…but permanent friend. 

"The first wedding of the world was on a Saturday…just about this time of day. Five times it was morning and evening ” and then it was the sixth day and somewhere around three o'clock in the afternoon the Lord God straightened up from his work…and declared that everything up to that point was very good…so good in fact that it could not have been better. Everything had gone without a hitch. 

The sun went down” and the moon came up just like he designed. The lights came on and went off right on schedule. Fish circled in the iridescent seas. Horses raced in the pristine meadows ” and last night the geese flew south over Santee into the sun. 

But that morning had been special…like no other in the short memory of the universe. For early on the morning of the sixth day the Lord God created a man” a perfect place for him to live and a perfect vocation for him. The new world was his ” and the Lord God loved him more deeply than any of all he had created. 

Everything the Lord God had was his…except one thing” ” and it was the one thing that troubled the Lord God – though the man knew nothing of it. 

There was a crack in creation that needed patching. There was something missing and only he the Creator knew it. 

It was then the Lord God realized he had created this man with a hunger for a relationship even God could not satisfy. Amazing! 

But because God is God and knew that his work of creation was not finished – that there was something missing in this world of two – that perfect work and perfect place is not enough to satisfy the hunger of a soul and heart – the Lord God sighed” ” set himself aside and wordlessly finished his work of love. 

There is a need in us – all of us – that goes so deep down that it can never be satisfied by the joy of our work” ” the sense of being in just the right place or even being one with the Father. 

Over the years I want you to think back to this…your own sixth day” ” this day of God's finished work and remember what God discovered that morning and the time and place where you said before us all: 

‘We are no longer alone. This is the one suited for me and I for them. This is the one God has created to complete me and to make me whole and with whom my life is to be lived. This is the one for whom even God sets himself aside and we affirm that the work of the Creator is done.’ 

I want to assure you that this is the great pleasure of the Father” and I want to welcome you to this sixth day of creation the day you will remember as the time the Lord God patched the crack in creation finished his work of love and declared it complete as you are now complete."