I had a moment on Saturday when I thought, "I can't wait to blog about this."

Kim and I drove out to Roxboro on Saturday afternoon to attend a wedding. First off, let me tell you, if you have never been to Roxboro, it is way out there. It is not near anything except the North Carolina-Virginia border. Anyway, Kim's co-worker, Rosa, was getting married, and being the avid wedding goers that we are, we couldn't turn it down. In the past three and a half years, we have been to approximately 25 weddings. I sort of lost count, but I am pretty sure we average about 7.66, repeating of course, weddings per year.

So, we go to this wedding. It is being held at the church where Rosa's dad is the pastor of the Nueva Esperanza ministry. We get to the church at about 2:10 for a wedding that was supposed to start at 2:00. Lucky for us, they must operate on Hungry time because the wedding didn't start until about 2:30.

Just to note, the demographics of the guests was about a 50-50 split of Latin Americans and non-Latin. The church is all decked out with pew bows, calla lilies, unity candles and such. The festivities start and they play a little Canon in D followed by a little Wagner. This looks like a typical wedding. It smells like a typical wedding. It even sounds like a typical wedding.

But, then the ceremony starts, and there is not one word of English in the entire ceremony.

At first, I was a bit put off by this. Then, as the pastor prayed in a language I know very little of, something clicked. It hit me that I was standing here in this church building listening to this man pray, very eloquently I might add, in a language foreign to me, to the same God I pray to in English.

I had a moment. One of those moments when you remember how much greater God is than you. It was like, "Oh, yeah. God doesn't just speak English." I went from there to thinking about how limitless God is. He doesn't speak just English and Spanish, but all languages, and not just current languages. He is fluent in the many languages that have come and gone, like Latin. Who uses Latin anymore?!?

I don't think I had ever thought about the possibility that God could speak a language that has not even been created, yet. Wow. God is pretty smart. And, pretty amazing. No, not pretty amazing, definitely amazing.

Father... Thank you for the reminder of Your greatness. Thank you for the reminder of how limited we are as humans. I pray that Your greatness will be known in all lands and in all languages. I pray that our understanding of Your greatness will be a constant reminder of how much we need you. Thank you for Your grace. Thank you for letting us be a part of Your story.

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