FORTY-NINE
Newlyweds
On this page Sarah says, “By the end of summer, Todd and I didn’t want to spend more time apart. So we took our broke butts down to the Palmer Courthouse and lassoed a magistrate to pronounce us man and wife. Our witnesses would come from where they often do at this courthouse, across the street at the old folks’ home.
“I walked over to the Palmer Pioneers Home to see who was available, and Todd followed me in the car, saying, ‘See if you can find a couple of people who can make it to the car without wheelchairs.’
“I couldn’t find any who fit the bill. But I found a nice elderly man with a walker and a kindly old lady in a wheelchair who agreed to see us into matrimony. They couldn’t squeeze into Todd’s little Honda coupe, so we had no choice but to escort them across the street, where, on August 29, 1988, those nice Alaska pioneers witnessed the beginning of two lives joined together at the Palmer Courthouse. The magistrate, Mrs. Fife, was young and brand new to the position, and she cried as she read the boilerplate vows. Then we walked our witnesses back across the street and stopped by the Wendy’s drive-thru for our wedding dinner.”
Oh blessed day!! Can we not see the whole scene and tableau in the vaulted hall and court of our imagination?!? The five figures: Lachrymose young Mrs. Pike; the kindly old lady and gentleman; the feisty young Alaskana couple, very much in love, and setting out boldly on life’s adventures!
But if we gaze a bit more closely, now not so much with the eyes of imagination, but with the eyes of contemplation, can we not, even with our limited and straitened understanding, perceive a tiny bit of the REALITY that was unfolding on that bright day, in those seemingly simple events? Many of us believe, and certainly ardently hope, that Sarah will be our President someday soon.
Nay, we go beyond that level, and perceive in her a second founder of our Republic: As George Washington was the Father of His Country, so Sarah Palin will be the Mother of Her Country. If this is the case, may we not be permitted piously to suppose that, even though outwardly only five individuals were present on that August day in the late 80′s, in fact, the Lord sent many angels to watch over this very special couple?
May we not see that, while their “butts” may have been “broke,” as Sarah says, they were already rich in many other ways: Rich in character; rich in courage; rich in spirit; rich in love of God, family, state, and country? Indeed, while I am looking forward to the spectacle of the upcoming Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate (our UK friends are very good at these things!), can we not see in the matrimony of 29 August, 1988 a marriage that very possibly has been even more momentous for the future and destiny of the West than the British wedding will be?
Ah, those magnificent Horse Guards of Her Majesty’s Royal Household that will be on display soon in London!!–but I think that I may be permitted to believe that Todd and Sarah were accompanied to their nuptials by an even more splendid, if invisible, equipage and escort!!
These thoughts, then, bring us back around to the first part of these reflections.
While the works and lying “wonders” of the Left may seem impressive outwardly, with their bluster and blabbering about “educational ideals,” and “art,” and the “humanities,” and “helping the poor,” and “helping the working man/woman,”etc., etc., their reality is revealed and exposed as deception, as theft, as lying, as slander (especially of Sarah), as treason.
With Todd and Sarah’s wedding day, we behold the complete opposite: Humble and quiet outward appearances and beginnings that concealed and cloaked a reality fraught with fate, fraught with glory, fraught with the triumph of the United States of America over her dire foes “foreign and domestic”… fraught with hidden but true beauty!!
May the Good Lord grant us always wisdom and insight and understanding!
