December 22nd Shannon and I attended our dear friend Susan's wedding. She married Jonathan McEvoy in a beautiful ceremony at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, and we celebrated at the Franklin Institute in Center City Philadelphia. Susan looked stunning (as you can see here), the bride and groom looked like they were floating, the bridemaids were beautiful, and the dancing was non stop.
I just finished reading Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and this is one of my favorite passages which I think is important for all of us to think about as we head into the new year: "I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think about happiness as a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul to hold tight to its good attainments."
May Susan and Jonathan hold tight to their good attainments and keep swimming upward into their happiness forever. Congratulations guys.
