Mormon Media Observer: Here's to Marie Osmond and Stephen Craig

As I watched the video of Marie Osmond and Steve Craig happily leaving the Las Vegas Temple, I couldn’t help think that I like much of what Marie’s public story seems to teach about Mormonism as the years have gone by.

We Mormons don’t always walk on sunshine. But through family loyalty, through effort and faith, and with the light of the Lord, we rise again. The public joy of the Osmonds and of the Craigs this week shows that Mormonism’s story isn’t about how perfect we members are, but about how perfect the atonement is and how perfect we strive to be, about how Mormonism at its best has always been about hope amid second chances. That’s a story the world needs right now, and Marie Osmond’s new marriage tells it well.

So here’s a thanks to Marie Osmond and to Steve Craig for their public embrace of the best of our faith. Here’s to many happy years and to many more songs for the Osmonds as they do their best to represent the faith they so obviously love.