It seems like everyone enjoys a good mystery. In bookstores and libraries, whole sections are devoted to mystery books. Authors like Ed McBain and Robert Ludlum can hardly keep up with readers’ demands. On television, the most popular shows are mysteries like Hardcastle and McCormick, Cagney and Lacy, and Crazy Like a Fox.

This evening, as we celebrate the love that ____ and ____ have found with one another, we come to share in a mystery. The writer of the Book of Proverbs tells us this:

Three things are too wonderful for me;Four I do not understand;The way of an eagle in the sky,The way of a serpent on a rock,The way of a ship on the high seas,And the way of a man with a maiden.(Proverbs 30:18-19)

The Apostle Paul also speaks of marriage as a mystery when he writes:

For this reason a …