When you are feeling overwhelmed, crowded out by responsibilities, sad, and yet motivated, and bombarded with “monkey’s weddings” (explanation to come), there are a few things you can do. I make lists of all I have to do. If you see me making pencil columns on paper listing all I have to do you know I am getting close to desperate.
But, let me get a “monkey’s wedding.”
Perhaps I have taken the metaphor to unintended depth but when a South African uses the term “monkey’s wedding” it means it’s raining and the sun is shining. Something very beautiful is occurring when it is also inextricably linked to something sad.
A young child read Psalm 23 yesterday to hundreds of people.
It was perhaps the most beautiful reading I have ever heard of that psalm.
The boy needed no help or prompting and the child – about 7 or 8 years old – displayed no sign of nervousness as his dad stood behind him at the pulpit.
The child was reading the psalm at his beloved grandmother’s funeral.
A perfect “monkey’s wedding.”
I am driving my son to New York City this weekend where he will settle into his new and wonderful life.
Please use the term in your own life if you are hearing it now for the first time.
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