Exerpts from "The Wedding" - Charles Schweninger
Minister:When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment.
.That is impossible. It is even a disservice to pretend it is possible.
Yet that is what most of us demand.
.We have such little faith in the ebb and flow of life and of love and of relationships.
We leap forward at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb, for we are afraid it will never return.
.We insist on permanence, on duration, on continuity.
But the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity and in freedom, as dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in creating the same pattern.
.I speak now to you of love, in which, the trust and freedom of the other person becomes as significant as the trust and freedom of one's self.
I speak to you of generosity, which gathers the beauty of earth for riches and the kindness which turns away the wrath of foolish men and women.
.I speak of all our hopes for their continued growth through patience, one for the other.
May you keep the vows you made on this day, in freedom,
.teaching each other who they are,
what they yet shall be,
.enabling them to know that,
in the fullness of being,
.they are more than themselves and more than each other,
that they are all of us and that together we share joyously the fruits of life on this Earth, our home.
.Minister:May these two find happiness in their union. May they live faithfully together, executing the vows they have made between them; and may they ever remain compassionate and encouraging, that their years may be rich with the joys of life, and their days be long upon the Earth.
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