Registration Marriage Readings Poems

8/20/2019 Registration Marriage Readings Poems

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The Jar of Life

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the classbegan, he wordlessly picked up a very large empty jar.

He then proceeded to fill the jar with golf balls.

“Is the jar full?” he asked his students. “Yes”, everyone responded.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jarlightly; the pebbles rolled into the areas between the golf balls.

“Is the jar full?” he asked his students. The students responded with a unanimous: “Yes”.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course the sand filled upall the space left.

He asked once more: “Is the jar full?” “Yes, of course,” everyone responded.

The professor then produced two beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into

the jar, filling the empty space between the sand.

Everyone laughed.

“Now,” the professor said as the laughter subsided. “I want you to recognise that this jar

represents your life. The golf balls are the important things - your family, your children, yourhealth, friends and favourite passions. If everything else was lost and only they remained, your

life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house orcar. The sand is everything else - the small stuff.”

“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf

balls. The same goes for life.”

“If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things

that are important to you.”

“Pay attention to the things critical to your happiness.”

“Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit your grandparents. Takeyour spouse out for dinner. Go out with your friends. There will always be time to clean the

house and mow the lawn.”

“Take care of the golf balls first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”

One of the students raised her hand and enquired what the beer represented. The professorsmiled and said, “I am glad you asked. The beer just shows that no matter how full your life may

seem, there’s always room for a couple of beers with a friend.”


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Chapter One of One ThousandBy OJ Preston

For two people this dawn brought on a magical dayNow husband and wife they head on their wayAs a boat setting sail may their journey beginWith calmest of waters, most helpful of wind

And if they should stumble upon turbulent seaMay it pass them unharming – leave them be.

For here are two people whom love has well bitten

Here opens their book which has yet to be writtenAs the first page unfolds and their life inks its pathMay it write a true story where forever love lastsLet their journey be happy till death do they partOf one thousand chapters may this be the start.


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Apache BlessingAuthor Unknown

May the sun bring you new energy by day,May the moon softly restore you by night,

May the rain wash away your worriesAnd the breeze blow new strength into your being,

And all of the days of your life may you walk

Gently through the world and know its beauty.


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The Blessing of the ApachesAuthor unknown

Now you will feel no rain,For each of you will be shelter to the other,

Now you will feel no coldFor each of you will be warmth to the other.

Now there is no more loneliness for youFor each of you will be companion to the other.

Now you are two bodies

But there is only one life before youGo now to your dwelling placeTo enter into the days of your togetherness

And may your days be good and long upon the earth.


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Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Do not walk in front of me,I may not be able to follow

Do not walk behind me,I may not be able to lead

Just walk beside me,And be my friend.


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Untitled – A DedicationLeo Marks

The life that I have, is all that I haveThe life that I have, is yours

The love that I have, of the life that I haveIs yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have, a rest I shall haveYet death will be but a pause

For the peace of my years, in the long green grassWill be yours and yours and yours.


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Marriage AdviceJane Wells (1886)

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger.Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

Believe the best rather than the worst.

People have a way of living up or down to your opinion of them.Remember that true friendship is the basis for any lasting relationship.

The person you choose to marry is deserving of the courtesiesAnd kindness you bestow on your friends.

Please hand this down to your children and your children’s children.


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A Love PoemDorothy Court

Love. What is it? You cannot hold it, neither see it,But it is all around us,

It is the essence of our lives.Sooner or later you are bound to meet it.

Some people go out to greet it.

It is there, it is here;It is gone; it is near;It is something we cannot afford to miss,

This once in a while, this bliss,This thing called love,

A gift from above.


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Marriage is……

Learning to give not always to take,Learning to forgive each little mistake,

Learning to love whatever the cost,Always remember alone you’d be lost.

Trying so hard your partner to please,Trying to save whilst paying the fees,

Trying to smile when things turn out wrong,Always remember to curb your tongue.

Never to think of only yourself,

Never to say you wish you had wealth.Never to let your temper get hot,Always be thankful for what you have got.

If you remember all of these things,You will discover the joys that it brings,

Then you’ll have what so many folks miss,Always you’ll have a marriage of bliss.


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The Art of Marriage

A good marriage must be created.In the marriage, the little things are the big things.

It is never being too old to hold hands.It is remembering to say, “I love you” at least once each day.

It is never going to sleep angry.It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.

It is standing together and facing the world.It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.

It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.

It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.

It is not only marrying the right person.It is being the right partner.


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A Wedding MessageAmanda Bradley

To love is to share life together.

To build special plans just for two.To work side by side

And then smile with prideAs, one by one, dreams all come true

To love is to help and encourageWith smiles and sincere words of praise

To take time to shareTo listen and care

In tender, affectionate ways

To love is to have someone specialOn whom you can always depend

To be there through the yearsSharing laughter and tears

As a partner, a lover, a friend

To love is to make special memoriesOf moments you love to recall

Of all the good thingsThat married life brings

Love is the greatest of all.


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Where there is LoveHelen Steiner Rice

Where there is love the heart is lightWhere there is love the day is brightWhere there is love there is a song

To help when things are going wrongWhere there is love

There is a smileTo make all things seem more worthwhile


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The Yueh-FuChinese Folk ballad

I want to be your soul mateFor all eternity

When the mountains are flatAnd the rivers run dry

When the trees blossom in winterAnd the snow falls in summerWhen the sky and earth are oneOnly then will we two be parted.


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Whole LoveRobert Graves

Love me more than dearly, love me whollyLove me with no weighing of circumstance

As I am pledged in honour to love youWith no weakness, with no speculation

On what might happen should you and I prove lessThan bringer-to-be of our own certainty


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Origins Unknown

Learn to listen like a teddy bearWith ears open and mouth closed tight

Learn to forgive like a teddy bearWith heart open, not caring who is right

Learn to love like a teddy bearWith arms open, and imperfect eyesight


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The Newly WeddedWinthrop Mackworth Praed

Now the rite is duly doneNow the word is spoken

And the spell has made us oneWhich may ne’er be broken

Rest we, dearest, in our home

Roam we over the heatherWe shall rest, and we shall roamShall we not? Together.


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Alchemy

By Francis Carlin

Because of the light of the moonSilver is found on the moor

And because of the light of the sunThere is gold on the walls of the poor.

Because of the light of the starsPlanets are found in the stream

And because of the light of your eyesThere is love in the depths of my dream.


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Today

Today I marry my friendThe one I laugh and cry with,

The one I have learned from and shared with.

This one I have chosen to support, encourage and give myself to,Through all the days given to us to share.

Today I marry the one I love.


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Unknown

When you are sad, I will dry your tears.When you are scared, I will comfort your fears,

When you are worried, I will give you hope,When you are confused, I will help you cope.

And when you are lost, and can’t see the light,I will be your beacon, shining ever so bright.

This is my oath: I pledge to the end.Why you may ask?Because you are my lover and friend.


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Us Two

Wherever I am, there’s always PoohThere’s always Pooh and me

Whatever I do, he wants to do “Where are you going to-day?” says Pooh;

“Well that’s very odd’ cos I was too.Let’s go together, “says Pooh, says he.

“Let’s go together,” says Pooh.

“What’s twice eleven?” I said to Pooh,

(“Twice what? “said Pooh to me.) “ I think it ought to be twenty-two.”

“Just what I think myself,” said Pooh. “It wasn’t an easy sum to do,

But that’s what it is, “said Pooh, said he. “That’s what it is,” said Pooh.

“Let’s look for dragons, “ I said to Pooh. “Yes let’s,“ said Pooh to me

We crossed the river and found a few –“Yes, those are dragons all right,” said Pooh.

“As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.That’s what they are, “ said Pooh, said he. “That’s what they are, “said Pooh.

“Let’s frighten the dragons, “I said to Pooh “That’s right,” said Pooh to me. “I’m not afraid,” I said to Pooh

And I held his paw and I shouted” Shoo!Silly old dragons!” – and off they flew. “I wasn’t afraid,” said Pooh, said he.

“I’m never afraid with you.”

So wherever I am, there’s always Pooh,There’s always Pooh and me

“What would I do?” I said to Pooh “If it wasn’t for you,” and Pooh said:

“True it isn’t much fun for One, but Twocan stick together,” says Pooh, says he.

“That’s how it is,“ says Pooh


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By Chris Ardis

Marriage is love,Walking hand in hand together.It is laughing with each other

about silly little thingswith care and tenderness.

In marriage.Love is trusting each other

when you are apart.It’s getting over disappointments and hurts

knowing that these are presentin all relationships.

It’s the realisation thatthere is no one else in this world

that you’d rather be withthan the one you’re married to.

It’s thinking of new things to do together.It’s growing old together.

Marriage is being in love for the rest of your life.


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These I Can Promise

I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;I cannot promise riches, wealth or gold;

I cannot promise you an easy pathway that leads away from change or growing old.

But I can promise all my heart’s devotion, a smile to chase away your tears of sorrow, a

love that’s ever true and ever growing, a hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.


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The Day

May this be the start of a happy new lifeThat’s full of special moments to share

May this be the first of your dreams come trueAnd of hope that will always be there …

May this be the start of a lifetime of trustAnd of caring that’s just now begun …

May today be the day that you’ll always rememberThe day when your hearts become one…


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The advice a father gives his daughter about marriage

Extract from ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like a volcano and then it subsides. And when itsubsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so

entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this iswhat love is.

Love is not breathless, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises ofeternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day. No, don’tblush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being ‘in love’ which any fool can do.

Love itself is what is left over when being ‘in love’ has burned away, and this is both an

art and a fortunate accident.

Your mother and I had it. We had the roots that grew towards each other underground,and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were onetree and not two. But sometimes the petals fall away and the roots have not entwined.Imagine giving up your home and your people, only to discover after six months, a year,

three years that the trees have had no roots and have fallen over. Imagine thedesolation. Imagine the imprisonment.


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A Sonnet

And now I touch this special moment.Desiring to intertwine the threads of our lives

To dance and sing to the rhythms as one.

Yet though our strengths will support one anotherMy joy will come from being beside you

Contentment will be the witnessing of our happinessAnd life’s fulfilment will be found in loving you.

Having fashioned my own pastI stand in this presentKnowing not what the future may bring

The one certainty is that I do knowI want to share my one with you.

And so thee I loveUntil forever.


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On Your Wedding DayAuthor unknown

Today is a day you will always remember

The greatest in anyone’s lifeYou’ll start off the day just two people in love

And end it as husband and wife.

It’s a brand new beginning, the start of a journeyWith moments to cherish and treasure

And although there’ll be times when you both disagreeThese will surely be outweighed by pleasure.

You’ll have heard many words of advice in the pastWhen the secrets of marriage were spoken

But you know that the answers lie hidden insideWhere the bond of true love lies unbroken.

So live happy forever as lovers and friendsIt’s the dawn of a new life for you

As you stand together with love in your eyesFrom the moment you whisper ‘I do’

And with luck, all your hopes, and your dreams can be realMay success find its way to your hearts

Tomorrow can bring you the greatest of joy

But today is the day it all starts


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Love’s PhilosophyBy PB Shelley

The fountains mingle with the riverAnd the rivers with the ocean.

The winds of arcadia mix foreverWith a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is singleAll things by a law so fineIn one spirit meet and mingle

Why not I with thine.


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When you MarryBy Susan Branch

“When you marry her, love her.After you marry her, study her.

When she is blue, cheer her.When she is talkative, by all means listen to her.

If she dresses well, compliment her.When she is cross, humour her.

If she is jealous, cure her.If she is lonely, comfort her.

When she looks pretty, tell her so.Let her feel you understand her.

But never let her know she isn’t the boss.

When you marry him, love him.

After your marry him, study him.If he is secretive, trust him.If he is sad, cheer him.

When he is talkative, listen to him.When he is quarrelsome, ignore him.

If he is jealous, cure him.If he cares nought for pleasure, coax him.

If he favours society, accompany him.When he deserves it, kiss him.

Let him think you understand him.But never let him know you manage him.”


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True Love

True love is a sacred flame,That burns eternally,

And none can dim it’s special glowOr change its destiny.

True love speaks in tender tonesAnd hears with gentle ear,

True love gives with open heartAnd true love conquers fears.

True love makes no harsh demandsIt neither rules nor binds,

And true love holds with gentle handsThe heart that it entwines.


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LOVE ISBy Andrea Hill

More beautify than roses, much deeper than the seasStronger than a hurricane, a but timid like a breeze.

Real as in a picture, but yet it can’t be seenMore beautiful than anything as vivid as a dream.

Precious as rare jewels, a bond between two heartsA symphony of feelings when time is spent apart.

Finding common ground on issues not agreed,Giving into arguments, tending all your needs.

Being there for always is all I want to doHolding you forever because our love is true.


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A Good Celebration CakeAuthor unknown

4Ib of Love½ of good looks

1 lb of sweet temper1 lb of butter of youth

1 lb of blindness of faults1 lb of pounded wit1 lb of good humour

2 tbs of sweet argument

1 pint of rippling laughter1 wine glass of common senseA dash of modesty

Put the love, good looks and a sweet temper into a well-furnished house.Beat the butter of youth to a cream and mix well together with the blindness of faults.Stir the pounded wit and good humour into the sweet argument, then add the ripplinglaughter and common sense. Work the whole together until everything is well mixed,

and bake gently for ever.


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Soul Mate

Is there truly a soul mate?Someone on whom you can always depend?Someone who brings sunshine into your life

More than a lover and always a friend?

When you hear their voice and know they’re safe …It is then when a smile lights up your face.

To know true love, you want to give of yourself.Thoughts are of them and no one else.

It matters not if the road to happiness is a bumpy ride.As long as your soul mate is by your side.

You can handle the storms for you see sunny weather.Life is beautiful when you are together.

Borrow from tomorrow’s sun if there are clouds today.Pick flowers and savour them, as you pass along the way.

If you find your soul mateAnd you love them so …. Never forget to let them know.

Love with fervour full of fire.Let them know they are your heart’s desire.

And if they give it all back to you,Then you will know that they love you true.

Perhaps it was fate … for you have found yourSOUL MATE.


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Seasons

Like Autumn leaves falling from a tree,Being with you sets my heart free

I love you now in such a way,More than simple words could ever say,

To my heart, my spirit, my soul I give,You are the reason I want to live.

I love you when you are close or far away,You are my Spring my beautiful May,When it is cold and Winter arrives,

You keep me warm and true love survives.

Each day with you improves and gets more involved,All the answers to my feelings you have solved,

With you its seems it’s Summer all year,

Because of your love, life now holds no fear.

Do you know it’s you I desire,Or how everything you say I seem to admire

Do you know how long I have waitedOr how being with you makes me so elated,

Do you now I dream the same recurring story,Of that it is always about you in your glory

Do you know these things are now part of my lifeOr that they are the reasons why I want you to be my wife.


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The Newly WeddedW M Praed

Now the rite is duly doneNow the word is spoken

And the spell has made us oneWhich may ne’er be broken

Rest we, dearest, in our homeRoam we over the heatherWe shall rest, and we shall roam

Shall we not, together.


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The Deep WaterBy Steven Hogarth

You are the deep waterYou are the thin ice

The edge of the high cliffAnd the November firesYou are my church bells

And the silent early hours

You are the ghost I hearEcho in the half-light

Ecstasy and heart failureTrembling and pounding in the magic spellYou are my wild flower and my wishing well

The spinning cut crystal above my bedThat dazzles and jabs me

Indigo blue and post box red

I run away and away and away from you and everyoneBut you hide in all the places I try to hideI make believe I make excuses I make fun

But you hide in all places I try to hide

Oh my loveI know what I am

A lost causeSelfish beyond forgiveness

Oh my heart knows what I amA lost cause

HopelessBut can you knowHow my heart knows you

The shallow water running from the deep waterRunning dry


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The Painting of a Marriage

You are starting your new lifeOn a canvas bright and clean,

You both have planned the paintingAnd the things that it will mean.

Together you will paint the picture,A critic neither will be,

Take the time to talk it overUntil you both agree.

You can expect some mistakesNo matter how hard you try,Just be sure to correct them

Before the paint has time to dry.

Be generous with bright colours

Use all your brush will hold,As they sweep across your canvasWith splashes of blue and gold.

When darker colours are neededAnd the reflections look dull and grey,

Talk it over with each otherAnd you will surely find your way.

This painting will take a lifetimeAnd may not bring you fame

But you will know you did your very bestBefore you signed your name.


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Saga Song

Love me when I’m old and shockingPeel off my elastic stockings

Swing me from the chandeliersLet’s be randy bad old dears.

Push around my chromed bath chairLet me tease your white chest hair

Scaring children, swapping denturesLet us have some great adventures.

Take me to the dogs and bingoTeach me how to speak the lingo

Bone my eels and ring me teaShow me how it’s meant to be.

Take me to your special places

Watching all the puzzled facesYou in shorts and socks and sandalsMe with warts and huge love-handles.

As the need for love enthralsWrestle with my damp proof smallsMake me laugh without constraint

Buy me chocolate body paint.

Hold me safe throughout the nightWhen my hair has turned to white

Believe me when I say it’s trueI’ve waited all my lives for you.


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American Indian Wedding Blessing

Now you will feel no rain,For each of you will be shelter to the other.

Now you will feel no cold,For each of you will be warmth to the other.

Now you will feel no loneliness,

For each of you will be companionship to the other.Now you are two persons,But there are three lives before you: his life, her life and

your life together.

Go now to your dwelling place,To enter into the days of your life together.

May beauty surround you both in the journey aheadAnd through all the years. May happiness be your

Companion to the place where the river meets the sun,And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

Treat yourselves and each other with respect,And remind yourselves often what brought you together.

Give the highest priority to the tenderness,Gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves.

When frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship -As they threaten all relationships at one time or another -Remember to focus on what is right between you, not only

That part which seems wrong.In this way, you can ride out the storms

When clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives.


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No Matter WhatBy Debi Gliori

Small was feeling grim and dark. He was playing toss and fling and bang and crash.Break and snap and bash and batter. Small said, “I’m a grim and grumpy little small and

nobody loves me at all”. “oh Small,” said Large. “Grumpy or not, I’ll always love you nomatter what.”

Small said, “If I was a grizzly bear would you still love me would you still care?” “Ofcourse,” said Large “bear or not, I’ll always love you no matter what.”

Small said “ But if I turned into a bug, would you still love me and give me a hug?” “Ofcourse,” said Large “bug or not, I’ll always love you no matter what.”

“No matter what?” said Small, and smiled, “What if I was a crocodile?” Large said “I’dhug you close and hold you tight and tuck you up in bed at night.”

“Does love wear out” said Small, “does it break or bend? Can you fix it, stick it, does itmend?” “Oh help,” said Large “I’m not that clever I just know I’ll love you forever.”

Small said “but what about when you’re dead and gone, would you love me then, doeslove go on?” Large held Small snug as they looked out at the night, at the moon in thedark and the stars shinning bright. “Small look at the stars – how they shine and glow,

but some of those stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies.Love, like starlight, never dies”


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Rock and Stone

This is a story of a rock and a stone,and a stream, and a rainfall, and not being alone.In the land of this tale, in a mountain’s shadow

was a stream brisk and bending the swift water’s flow.On the bank of the stream, just beyond a great birch,

was a rock, strong and sturdy, holding back clay and dirt.Just below with the edge of the stream as its home,

was a glimmering beauty, a shiny smooth stone.To the rock, with its pride of supporting the earth,

A stone was not useful: it was without worth.To the stone, with its beauty and lustering glory,A rock was not pleasing and belonged in a quarry.

Yet the fear of the rock and the stone were the same.Each dreaded the future, the day of great rain.

The rock might be dislodged and roll to the stream’s bottom.The stone might be pushed into the mud and forgotten.

The rainfall came quickly, as sometimes storms will,The rock was dislodged, it rolled down the hill

Stopping not under water, and without one moan

The rock came to rest upon the fine stone.Stream became river; though waters enragedThe stone was not pushed to a dark muddy grave.

The rock safe yet wetted, the dirt now sprayed loose,Still formed the bank, still had a use.

As sunshine returned the river to streamRock and stone together were seen.

Saviour each was, and after that frightEach saw the other in a new light.

The rock saw the stone as a rock ever more,

with beauty and strength supporting the shore.The stone saw the rock as a stone from that day,with strength and beauty under robe of clay.Together they stayed, more shiny and strong

than either had been by itself all along.The story is told; the message you seeis that you and I will be better as we.


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Running dryUnknown

If you have found a smile that is the sweetest one you’ve known,If you have heard, within a voice, the echoes of your own

If you have felt a touch that stirs the longings of your heart,

And still can feel the closeness in the moments you’re apartIf you have filled with wonder at the way two lives can blend,To weave a perfect pattern that is seamless, end to end,If you believe some things in life are simply meant to be,

Then you have found your soul mate, your hearts own destiny.


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Marriage is a Promise of LoveEdmund O’Neill

Marriage is a commitment to life.. to the best that two people can

find and bring out of each other. It offers opportunities for sharing and growth noother human relationship can equal, a physical and emotional joining that promised

for a lifetime.

Within the circle of its love, marriage encompasses all of life’s most importantrelationships. A wife and a husband are each other’s best friend, confidant, lover,

teacher, listener and critic. There may come times when one partner is heartbroken orailing, and the love of the other may resemble the tender caring of a parent for a child.

Marriage deepens and enriches every facet of life. Happiness is fuller, memories arefresher, commitments are stronger, even anger is felt more strongly, and passes away

more quickly.

Marriage understands and forgives the mistakes life is unable to avoid. It encouragesand nurtures new life, new experiences, and new ways of expressing love through the

seasons of life.

When two people pledge to love and care for each other in marriage, they create a spiritunique to themselves, which binds them closer than any spoken or written words.

Marriage is a promise, a potential, made in the hearts of two people who love, whichtakes a lifetime to fulfil.


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Unknown

I promise to give to you the best of myself

And to ask no more of you than you can give.

I promise to respect you for the person you are andTo realise that your interests, desires and needs

Are no less important than my own.

I promise to share with you my time and attentionAnd to bring you joy, comfort and strength.

I promise to keep myself open to you so that youMay see through the window of my world into my

Innermost feelings, secrets and dreams.

I promise to grow along with you and be ready toFace the changes and challenges as they come into our lives.

And I promise to love you through the good times and badWith all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know

How, completely and forever.


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Hinterhof

Stay near to me and I’ll stay near to you-As near as you are dear to me will do,

Near as the rainbow to the rain,The west wind to the windowpane,

As fire to the hearth, as dawn to dew.

Stay true to me and I’ll stay true to you-As true as you are new to me will do,

New as the rainbow in the spray,Utterly new in every way,

New in the way that what you say is true.

Stay near to me, stay true to me. I’ll stayAs near, as true to you as heart could pray.

Heart never hoped that one might beHalf of the things you are to me-

The dawn, the fire, the rainbow and the day.


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The Passionate Shepherd To His LoveChristopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures prove

That valleys, groves, hills and fields,

Or woods or steepy mountain yields

And we will sit upon the rocks,And see the shepherds feed their flocks

By shallow rivers, to whose fallsMelodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of rosesAnd a thousand fragrant posies;

A cap of flowers, and a kirtleEmbroidered all with leaves of myrtle.

A gown made of the finest woolWhich from our pretty lambs we pull;

Fair lined slippers for the cold,With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw and ivy-budsWith coral clasps and amber studs:

And if these pleasures may thee move,Come and live with me and be my love.

Thy shepherd swains shall dance and singFor thy delight each May morning:If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me and be my love.


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‘Maybe’

Maybe.. we are supposed to meet the wrong people before meeting theRight one so that, when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be

grateful for that gift.

Maybe… It is true that we don’t know what we have got until we lose it, but is also true

that we don’t know what we have been missing until it arrives

Maybe… the happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they justmake the most of everything that comes along their way.

Maybe… the best kind of love is the kind you can sit on a sofa together and never say aword, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.

Maybe… you shouldn’t go for looks; they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth; even thatfades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to

make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

Maybe… you should hope for enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials tomake you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to make you

happy.

Maybe… love is not about finding the perfect person, it’s about learning to see animperfect person perfectly.

Maybe… it’s not just about finding the right person, it is about being the right partner.


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Once in a Lifetime

Once in a lifetime you find someoneWho touches not only your heart, but also your soul.

Once in a lifetime you discover whostands beside you, not over you.

You find someone who loves you, for who you are,and not for who you could be.

Once in a lifetime, you find someone…As you have found each other.


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Unknown

I promise to give to you the best of myselfAnd to ask no more of you than you can give.

I promise to respect you for the person you are andTo realise that your interests, desires and needs

Are no less important than my own.

I promise to share with you my time and attentionAnd to bring you joy, comfort and strength.

I promise to keep myself open to you so that youMay see through the window of my world into my

Innermost feelings, secrets and dreams.

I promise to grow along with you and be ready toFace the changes and challenges as they come into our lives.

And I promise to love you through the good times and badWith all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know

How, completely and forever.


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From "Gift From The Sea"by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way,from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet thisis exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, oflove, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We areafraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; whenthe only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, inthe sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the

same pattern.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, notin hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was innostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in thepresent relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands,one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands,surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by

the tides."


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Today…

Today….I look into the eyes of my best friend

The one with whom I can share anything;

My deepest hopes and heart-filled dreams, my inner fears and insecuritiesMy most warming joys and overwhelming triumphs,

All future journeys that I have left to encounterThis and more I know I can share with you

Today….I take pride in my best friend

With admiration I look upon you and smile;For all that you are and all that you do that makes me so proud

Every part of you that I have come to adore,And for all those parts I have not yet learned

Today….I share my soul to my best friend

My most prized possession which no other has been givenII give it with great confidence and trust because with you I am at peace and I know

with you it is safe.You give to me warmth that I keep with me always

And what else can I give to someone who has given me so much?For you have opened my eyes to see a love, which before you I was blind to

Today…

I am marrying my best friend


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Will You Still Love Me When I’m Old?

I would ask you, my darling,A question soft and low,

That gives me many a heartache

As the moments come and go.

Your love I know is truthful,But the truest love grows cold;It is this that I would ask you;Will you love me when I’m old?

Life’s morn will soon be waning,And its evening bells be tolled,

But my heart shall know no sadness,If you’ll love me when I’m old.

Down the stream of life togetherWe are sailing side by side,

Hoping some bright day to anchorSafe beyond the surging tide.Today our sky is cloudless,

But, though storms may gather round us,Will you love me when I’m old?

When my hair shall shade the snowdrift,And mine eyes shall dimmer grow,I would lean upon some loved one,

Through the valley as I go.I would claim of you a promise, worth to me a world of gold;

It is only this, my darling,That you’ll love me when I’m old.


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A Poem From ‘The Invitation’Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and ifyou dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a foolfor love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you havetouched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or

have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or

fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildnessand let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be

careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you candisappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal andnot betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if youcan source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge ofthe lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want toknow if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the

bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you

will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know

what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you

keep in the empty moments.


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Yes, I'll Marry You, My Dear By Pam Ayres

Yes, I'll marry you, my dear and here's the reason whySo l can push you out of bed when the baby starts to cryAnd if we hear a knocking and it's creepy and it's late,

I’ll hand you the torch you see, and you can investigateYes I'll marry you, my dear you may not apprehend it,

But when the tumble-drier goes it's you that has to mend it,You have to face the neighbour, should our Labrador attack himAnd if a drunkard fondles me, it's you that has to whack him.

Yes, I'll marry you, you're virile and you're lean,My house is like a pigsty, you can help to keep it clean,

That sexy little dinner which you served by candlelight,As I do chipolatas, you can cook it every night!It's you who has to work the drill and put up curtain track,

And when I've got P.M.T. it's you who gets the flak,I do see great advantages, but none of them for you,And so before you see the light -I DO, I DO, I DO!!!


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My Daughter’s Wedding Day

It’s here at last, your wedding day.You make a stunning bride.

You’ll leave here Mrs__________With you husband by your side.Just reminiscing, looking back

as I stand and look at you.The time has flown so quickly –Where have the years gone to?

I turned to see my little girlCome walking up the aisle,

Leaning on her father’s armHer face a beaming smile.Her eyes are filled with tenderness,

And mine are filled with tears,As I look back on childhood days,

And then to teenage years.

We’ve had so many lovely times,We’ve shared so many things –

Thoughts, ambitions, dreams, desiresAnd hopes that soared on wings.

But now I have to let you go,My thoughts are in a whirl -This lovely radiant woman

Is still my little girl.


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To Daisy

Where the thistle lifts a purple crownSix foot out of the turf,And the harebell shakes on the windy hill--

O breath of the distant surf!--

The hills look over on the South,And southward dreams the sea;

And with the sea-breeze hand in handCame innocence and she.

Where 'mid the gorse the raspberryRed for the gatherer springs;

Two children did we stray and talkWise, idle, childish things.

She listened with big-lipped surprise,Breast-deep 'mid flower and spine:

Her skin was like a grape whose veinsRun snow instead of wine.

She knew not those sweet words she spoke,Nor knew her own sweet way;

But there's never a bird, so sweet a songThronged in whose throat all day.

Oh, there were flowers in StorringtonOn the turf and on the spray;

But the sweetest flower on Sussex hillsWas the Daisy-flower that day!

Her beauty smoothed earth's furrowed face.She gave me tokens three:--

A look, a word of her winsome mouth,And a wild raspberry.

A berry red, a guileless look,A still word,--strings of sand!And yet they made my wild, wild heart

Fly down to her little hand.

For standing artless as the air,And candid as the skies,

She took the berries with her hand,And the love with her sweet eyes.


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A Walled Garden

‘Your marriage,’ he said ‘should have within it, a secret and protected place opento you alone.

‘Imagine it to be a walled garden, entered by a door to which you only hold the key.Within this garden you will cease to be a mother, father, employee, homemaker or any

other of the roles which you fulfil in daily life. ‘Here you are yourselves – two people, who love each other.

‘Here you can concentrate on one another’s needs.

And so we made our walled garden.Time that was kept for us alone.

At first we went there often, enjoying each other’s company, sharing secrets, growing

closer.But now our days are packed with plans and people.

Conversation has become a message scribbled on a pad.The door into our garden is almost hidden by rank weeds of busy-ness.

We claim we have no time because we have forgotten.Forgotten that love grows if it is tended, and if neglected dies.

But we can always make time for what is the most important in our lives.So take my hand and let us go back to our garden.

The time we spend together is not wasted but invested.Invested in the future and the nature of our love.


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A Passage from Captain Corelli's MandolinLouis de Bernieres

Love is a temporary madness;it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides.

And when it subsides you have to make a decision.You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together

that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.Because this is what love is.Love is not breathlessness,

it is not excitement,and it is not the promulgation of eternal passion.That is just being "in love" which any fool can do.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches,

they find that they are one tree and not two.


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Marriage Box

Most people get married believing a myth thatMarriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for:

Companionship, intimacy, friendship, etc.The truth is that marriage at the start is an empty box.

You must put something in before you can take anything out.And people put love in marriage.

There is no romance in marriage.You have to infuse it into your marriage.A copuple must learn the art and form the habit of giving, loving, serving, praising

keeping the box full.If you take out more than you put in, the box will be empty.


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The Wedding Vow

“You are not the air that I breathe,You are the sweet scent that drifts upon it.

You are not the sounds that I hear,You are the music of my life.

You are not the food that I need,You are the nourishment of my soul.

You are not my will to surviveYou are my reason for living.

It is with you I experience the wonders of the world.It is with you that I triumph over the challengs in my path.

It is your partnership that will lead me to the fulfillment of my dreams.

It is your friendship that guides me as I learn and grow.It is your patience and wisdom that calms my restless nature.It is through you that I know my true self.

I do not take you for granted - I cherish you.I do not need you – I choose you.

I choose you today in witness of all people who love us.I choose you tonmorrow in the privacy of our hearts.

I choose you in strength and weakness.I choose you in health and in sickness.

I choose you in joy and sorrow.I choose you over all others everyday for all the days of my life.”

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