Wedding in the Mountains

(picture is from Donna Rowland's FaceBook site)
On Saturday, I did a wedding for a couple from northern Minnesota. They came out to Cooke City with family and friends...and about 15 snowmobiles. The groom proposed to his fiance after he was dug out from an avalanche on Lulu Pass. Of course, the plan was to propose in a more appropriate place. When I met with them in the summer I thought they wanted to be married in Mount Republic Chapel, given that it would still be winter and all, but they said they wanted to be married at the top of Daisy Pass. I said OK to it, never having been up there and never having been on a snowmobile. But by the time they got here, I had been up to Daisy Pass numerous times and have been on a snowmobile more than I would have imagined.

So on Saturday morning at about 10:45, I got on the Yamaha Mountain Max 600 I am borrowing and rode up to Daisy Pass with about 30 other people to do a wedding on the mountain. Once up there, they decided to line up the snowmobiles facing one another, forming an aisle. The bride and groom rode down the aisle on a hyped up Polaris snowmobile and we did the ceremony right at the edge of the Daisy Pass hill. The weather was spectacular - clear, 50 degrees and hot in the sun. At 9300 feet, we are closer to the sun and the atmosphere is thinner. My friend Jeff took this picture. I will have more pictures of the event soon.

I write this on the evening of Easter Sunday. Again, we had beautiful weather up here in Cooke City. The church was full and children sang as we prayed. When we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ we are celebrating an historical event that is astonishing and crazy and wonderful. But that is the way God is with us - in our spiritual lives, in our shared history and in our experience here on this lonely planet. May the resurrection live in your hearts, minds and souls. May it be as true for you as it was for the disciples who witnessed it all those many years ago.
Peace!
Pastor Seth