Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

The women of our family will soon be serenading our younger son and his bride at the rehearsal dinner.  I began this tradition with my older daughter, and that time I sang all by myself.  I was a wreck.  So why did I come up with the idea?  I can't reconstruct my thinking, but my heart was overflowing with love and joy, and music seemed like the way to express my feelings.  Three months later I sang to our older son and his bride, and then  came a gap of many years.  My older daughter had divorced and was remarrying, and I corralled my younger daughter, daughter-in-law, my older kids' stepmother and my young granddaughter into singing one song, and I sang the second by myself.  Then came my younger daughter's wedding, and our group sang one song and my older daughter and I sang the second.  It felt so special that the women of the family were serenading.  This time we are ALL singing two songs, and the intrepid stepmother is playing the ukelele and we have a tamborine.  We are getting to be quite a production.  But the heartfelt feelings remain the ground on which we stand.