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Saturday, July 27, 2019
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Wedding Vows Part 1
"I, _____, give you _____ this ring as a symbol of my love. As I place it
on your finger, I commit the whole of my heart and soul to you. I
promise to cherish you for the rest of my days. I give you all that I
am, and accept all that you are."
I
promise to give you the best of myself.
I
promise to trust and respect you as your own person and to realize
that your interests, desires, and needs are no less important than my
own.
I
promise to share with you my time and my attention; and to bring joy,
strength, and imagination to our relationship.
I
promise to keep myself open to you, encourage your dreams, and help
shoulder our challenges.
I
promise to grow along with you, to be willing to face change in order
to keep our relationship alive and exciting.
"I, ___, take thee, ___, to be my wedded husband/wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I pledge thee my faith [or] pledge myself to you."
"I, ______, take you, ______, to be no other than yourself. Loving what I know of you, trusting what I do not yet know, I will respect your integrity and have faith in your abiding love for me, through all our years, and in all that life may bring us."
I, ______, choose you _______ to be no other than yourself. Loving what I know of you, trusting what things I will discover. I will respect you as a person, a partner, and an equal. There is little to say that you haven’t already heard, and little to give that is not already freely given. Before you asked me, I was yours and I am devoted to you in every way. I marry you with no hesitation or doubt, and my commitment to you is absolute.
I love you unconditionally and without hesitation. I vow to love you, encourage you, trust you, and respect you. As a family, we will create a home filled with learning, laughter, and compassion. I promise to work with you to foster and cherish a relationship of equality knowing that together we will build a life far better than either of us could imagine alone. Today, I choose you to be my husband/wife/partner. I accept you as you are, and I offer myself in return. I will care for you, stand beside you, and share with you all of life’s adversities and all of its joys from this day forward, and all the days of my life.
I, _____, commit myself to you, ______, as wife/husband/partner, to learn and grow with, to explore and adventure with, to respect you in everything as an equal partner, in the foreknowledge of joy and pain, strength and weariness, direction and doubt. We wear these rings to symbolize our connection to one another. They represent our trust in each other and our combined strength together.
I promise to love you for who you are, and for who you are yet to become. I promise to be patient, and to remember that all things between us are rooted in love. I promise to nurture your dreams and to help you reach them. I promise to share my whole heart with you, and to remember to show you how deeply I care for you, no matter the challenges that may come our way. I promise to love you loyally and fiercely—as long as I shall live.
"I, ___, take thee, ___, to be my wedded husband/wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I pledge thee my faith [or] pledge myself to you."
"I, ______, take you, ______, to be no other than yourself. Loving what I know of you, trusting what I do not yet know, I will respect your integrity and have faith in your abiding love for me, through all our years, and in all that life may bring us."
I, ______, choose you _______ to be no other than yourself. Loving what I know of you, trusting what things I will discover. I will respect you as a person, a partner, and an equal. There is little to say that you haven’t already heard, and little to give that is not already freely given. Before you asked me, I was yours and I am devoted to you in every way. I marry you with no hesitation or doubt, and my commitment to you is absolute.
I love you unconditionally and without hesitation. I vow to love you, encourage you, trust you, and respect you. As a family, we will create a home filled with learning, laughter, and compassion. I promise to work with you to foster and cherish a relationship of equality knowing that together we will build a life far better than either of us could imagine alone. Today, I choose you to be my husband/wife/partner. I accept you as you are, and I offer myself in return. I will care for you, stand beside you, and share with you all of life’s adversities and all of its joys from this day forward, and all the days of my life.
I, _____, commit myself to you, ______, as wife/husband/partner, to learn and grow with, to explore and adventure with, to respect you in everything as an equal partner, in the foreknowledge of joy and pain, strength and weariness, direction and doubt. We wear these rings to symbolize our connection to one another. They represent our trust in each other and our combined strength together.
I promise to love you for who you are, and for who you are yet to become. I promise to be patient, and to remember that all things between us are rooted in love. I promise to nurture your dreams and to help you reach them. I promise to share my whole heart with you, and to remember to show you how deeply I care for you, no matter the challenges that may come our way. I promise to love you loyally and fiercely—as long as I shall live.
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Saturday, June 1, 2019
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Is It Love? Part XV
The final description of what love looks like is the line "Love never fails".
In a very famous scene between two lovers Juliet had it correct. Romeo is pledging his love to Juliet by saying "Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear/ That tips with silver all these fruit tree-tops." Juliet stops him and tells Romeo "O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon/ That monthly changes in her circled orb,/ Lest that thy love prove likewise variable." (II : ii) Love should not wax and wane, pulled by some external force outside our relationship with our mate. It should be constant. Steady. It should be the light by which we will always find our way home to our love at the end of the day, no matter how dark the times become.
Love is not mercurial. It does not shift or cool based on the whims of infatuation.
So now take a look at how you are treating and interacting with your partner, are you:
- Patient
- Kind
- Not envious
- Not boastful
- Not prideful
- Bring honor
- Not self-seeking
- Calm in temperament
- Forgiving and forgetting
- Truthful
- Protective
- Trusting
- Hopeful
- Perseverant
If you can honestly say you try every day to exhibit these qualities toward your mate then you are expressing what the Bible describes as the portrait of love.
I did not ask you to examine your partner against this list for that is their responsibility. It is not our job to judge them and certainly, we will never be able to change them. However, we can change ourselves. Even though we are imperfect humans we can strive to be better persons. We can be the change we want to see. Let it begin with us. When our mate sees the effort we are making for the betterment of the relationship then they will perhaps be moved to do their own personal evaluation.
I do not advocate staying in a relationship that is unhealthy or abusive. I do encourage you to reflect how you at one time seen something in your mate and to try to re-discover what that was. Don't partake in this throwaway society where some enter a marriage thinking "if it doesn't work out we can always get a divorce." Don't set your relationship up for failure from the outset. What we say, do and how we behave sends out concentric rings that touch the lives of everyone we meet.
Show love.
Feel love.
Be Love.
In the end
Love Wins!
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Is It Love? Part XIV
Have you attended a wedding and heard this:
"For better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health"?
What the minister is asking is will the person persevere?
In the continuing discussion of what defines whether a relationship is based on love we read, "it always perseveres".
Love has been compared to pearls. Why pearls? One reason is naturally occurring pearls are beautiful and rare and NOT perfect. It was born out of a tiny irritation that with time and perseverance was covered up over and over and over, to the end that the irritant became a thing of beauty to adorn the wearer.
Love is no fleeting emotion. It's enduring. It's being the stronghold for our partner when they need a rest and them returning the favor when we can't find the strength to go on. Love is understanding that humans become overwhelmed and the person we lash out against is sadly too often the person we love the most and hoping they will love us even in our ugly moments enough to accept our sincere apology and promise to be better next time. Love is built on the rock-solid foundation of friendship first and never ceases to grow. Expanding to the point of overflowing. Love is seeking the highest good, no matter what adversity befalls.
Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not dishonor, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it does not keep a record of wrongs, it does not delight in evil but it does rejoice with truth, it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
This is the face of true love. Even though we are fallible humans we should still be able to look into the face of the person we love and they into ours and see each one of these markers shining like a light.
Only one marker remains in our discussion.
Love never fails.
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