Wedding Plans

Some of you already know that I am an ordained minister through the Universal Life Church. Yeah I know what you’re thinking… big deal right? Anybody can get ordained in a matter of minutes this way right? True and yes the site can be quite silly but I did this after being impressed with a close friend who did the same. It was merely the officiation of the spiritual work that he had been doing for years… I say now, as he used to, “I take my title very seriously.”

So in taking my work seriously I try to be there for everybody in my life in whatever way I can. (this usually means listening… probably the greatest gift you can give someone) This is not always easy because there are only so many hours in the day and there are so many people I wish to spend time with… so many people whose lives i wish i could touch in some way… So i elected to bare the title “Missionary of Music” in hopes that I could do my work through music and affect a wider range of people.

The problem is you end up “hermitizing” and writing music into the long hours of the night… see less people… and then wonder if you’ve somehow fallen off track. Sometimes I forget that my presence is what some of the closest people in my life need from me… not techno.

When authentic swamis earn their titles they give up their material things.. their homes… their former lives… and the local government declares them as “dead”… However if it is discovered that they abandoned their families back home to do this they are forced to go home and take care of them first. This is what I worry might happen to me if I focus too singularly on my medicine (ie: musical medicine for the masses)

So I was deeply pleased when my friends Jason and Ruthie asked if I would officiate their wedding later this year. My legal status as a minister is finally getting called into use… and here i have been handed, arguably, one of the most pristine tasks a minister can perform… for two of my closest friends. So that rocks balls. Now I just have to plan my script… get a quality certificate printed, stamped and framed… and figure out what the fuck I’m going to wear…  =)

What’s best is that it’s going to be held at the ranch and the reception is going to be an all-night party! And I get to play! So that means I’m doing DOUBLE the ministry in ONE night! BAM BITCHES! WHO’S YOUR SWAMI!?!?!

Oh yeah.. last night I was asked to join The Ambient Mafia’s ranks… so we’re talking Minister and Mafia Member at the same time! OK so it might not be a REAL mafia…. but we DID eat pasta so I think that counts for something.

Tags: love, spirituality