I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.
I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.
Bonds are guaranteed certificates of confiscation
What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.
I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.
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