Sunday, October 11, 2026
Spirit of Hope Lutheran Church, Lincoln, NE
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
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It’s kind of fun that we have a story about a wedding for today in our gospel reading, because I was actually at a wedding exactly 12 years ago today! I had just started seminary in Chicago. And I had just met and started getting to know some of my seminary classmates. And already, one of my lovely new classmates – my dear friend Preston – was inviting us to be part of one of the most important days of his life! 

We were all very excited to be included. We helped decorate the seminary chapel and tried to make it look as wedding-y as we could. And between the 20 or so of us, we managed to conjure up a truly obscene number of desserts. It was a good day.

But as much fun as it was for all of us to get to celebrate this day with our new friend, there’s no denying that this setup was far from ideal. It certainly would not have been Preston’s first choice for celebrating such an important day: to get married at school, so far away from home.

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