Have I Told You Lately

Recently my wife and I spotted (actually, she did) a photo in a book highlighting weddings on Nantucket – one of our favorite places to visit.   It had the lyrics of a Van Morrison song written in script on a large door panel above the knob.

Entitled “Have I Told You Lately,” I was reminded of all the weddings at which I’ve presided this summer.   Wonderful young men and women full of love for each other and about to become “one flesh,” caused me to wonder: will they beat the odds and remain together after many years? 

I’ll now use these lyrics in many of the homilies I will give at future weddings and suggest husband and wife find a door panel on which to write:

Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what you do
Oh the morning sun in all its glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
And you fill my life with laughter
You can make it better
Ease my troubles that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
And it's yours and it's mine
Like the sun at the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray to the One
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
And it's yours and it's mine
And it shines like the sun
At the end of the day we will give thanks
And pray…

We all need reminders to say, “I love you” and to remember it’s love that’s divine.

Deacon David Pierce