Love and Marriage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grateful

 

Let us be grateful
for the capacity to see, feel, hear, and understand.
Let us be grateful for this incredible gift of life.
Let us be especially grateful
for the ties of love which bind us together,
giving dignity, meaning, worth and joy to all our days.
This is indeed a day which the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice in it and be glad,
and let us count our many blessings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Corinthians. 13:4-13

 

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy,

it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,

it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil

but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,

always hopes, always perseveres.
And now faith, hope, and love abide,

but the greatest of these is love.

 

 

 

 

I Promise

Dorothy R. Colgan

 

I promise to give you the best of myself
and to ask of you no more than you can give.
I promise to 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,
to let you see through the window of my world
into my innermost fears and feelings, secrets and dreams.
I promise to grow along with you,
to be willing to face changes in order to keep
our relationship alive and exciting.
I promise to love you in good times and bad,
with all I have to give and all I feel inside
in the only way I know how,
completely and forever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Treat Yourselves and Each Other

with Respect

 

Treat yourselves and each other with respect,
and remind yourselves often of what brought you together.
Give the highest priority to the tenderness,
gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves.
When frustration, difficulties 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 the part which seems wrong.
In this way, you can ride out the storms
when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives...
remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment,
the sun is still there.
And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality
of your life together,
it will be marked by abundance and delight.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.documentsanddesigns.com/index_pages/vows_verses_index.htm