Love Puts Out

My best friend got married on Saturday.  It was a beautiful ceremony, full of love, excitement, and tender moments.  I love weddings!  I'm one of those girls who is guilty of looking at random people's wedding pictures just because I love weddings so much.

I almost died, though, when the pastor began his wedding message by talking about love...and how "love puts in, and love puts out."

He had a good point: love is not only an internal, receiving kind of thing, but something that comes out of you that you share with others.  But to say the phrase "Love puts out" 7 times during the ceremony almost had me on the floor. 

I don't know how anyone gets past the age of 30 without knowing that "put out" is not acceptable wedding ceremony terminology.  And the man wasn't some ancient old fuddy duddy of a gramps, either.  He was stylishly dressed, walked in with a pair of Ray Bans, has two kids in elementary school, and can't be over 35 years old.

My sweet friend is preciously innocent, and I can say with certainty that it never dawned on her during the ceremony that saying "Love puts out" was at all inappropriate.

"Love puts out.  Even when you're tired, even when you don't feel like it, love puts out.."

Hee hee hee!

It was not one of my most mature moments.

But she is married!  And everything else about the wedding was beautiful.  And we'll never tell her about the inadvertent sex advertisements throughout her ceremony.

Shhhh!  It's our little secret.