Blessing
for a Marriage by James Dillet Freeman
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite
excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant
you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.
May you always need one another - not so much to fill
your emptiness as to help you to know your fullness.
May you need one another, but not out of weakness.
May you want one another, but not out of lack.
May you entice, but not compel one another.
May you embrace, but not encircle one another.
May you succeed in all important ways with one another,
and not fail in the little graces.
May you look for things to praise, often say, "I love
you!" and take no notice of small faults.
If you have quarrels that push you apart, may both of
you hope to have good sense enough to take the first
step back.
May you enter into the mystery which is the awareness of
one another's presence - no more physical than
spiritual, warm and near when you are side by side, and
warm and near when you are in separate rooms or even
distant cities.
May you have happiness, and may you find it making one
another happy.
May you have love, and may you find it loving one
another. |
