YOUR INTERFAITH WEDDING

On The True, Seasoned Marriage
 

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. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of the tide of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide of life and resist in terrors it's ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life, as in love, is growth... is fluidity... is freedom.

 

-Ann Morrow Lindbergh, from Gift from the Sea

 

It takes years to marry completely two hearts, even the most loving and well assorted. A happy wedlock is a falling in love. Young persons think love belongs to the brow-haired and crimson cheeked. So it does for its beginning. But the golden marriage is part of love which the bridal day knows nothing of.... Such a large and sweet fruit is marriage that is needs a long summer to ripen, and then a long winter to mellow and season it.

 

-Theodore Parker 

 

 

The Art of Marriage
 
Marriage is an art unto itself.
And in The Art of Marriage.... The little things are so important…
It means never being too old to hold hands, or to say I love you.

It's never going to bed angry.

It is at no time taking the other for granted; the courtship should not end with the honeymoon. Allow it to continue through the years.

It's having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.

It's standing together facing the world.

It's forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.

It's doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.

It's speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.

It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor.

It's not only marrying the right partner, it's being the right partner.

 

- Wilferd A. Peterson. 

(Included in a 1961 anthology published by Simon & Schuster, USA, and copyrighted in the name of Wilferd A. Peterson)

 

 

Marriage Joins Two People

Marriage offers opportunities for sharing growth that no other human relationship can equal. 

It is an emotional and physical joining that is promised for a lifetime. 

Within the circle of love, marriage encompasses all of life's most important relationships. 

A wife and husband are each other's best friend, confidant, lover, teacher, listener and critic.

Marriage deepens and enriches every facet of life. 

Happiness is fuller; memories are fresher; even anger is felt more intensely, and passes away more quickly. 

Marriage understands and forgives, the mistakes that life is unavoidable to avoid. 

It encourages and nurtures new life, new experiences and new ways of expressing your love through the seasons. 

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

Marriage is a promise and potential, made in the hearts of two people who are in love, that takes a lifetime to fulfill.

 

-- Edmund O'Neil.

 

 

I Carry Your Heart With Me

 

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

 

--e.e. cummings

 

 

Practical and Loving Advice

 

In everyone's life there are problems to solve.

Even in the strongest relationships there differences to overcome.

It is easy to give up when confronted with difficulties,

to fool yourself into believing that perfection can be found somewhere else.

But true happiness and a lasting relationship are found when you

look inside yourself for a solution to the problems.

Instead of walking away when things get tough and blaming the other person,

look for compromise and forgiveness.

Caring is not a matter of convenience.

It's a commitment of one soul to another and if each gives generously of themselves, then both lives are enriched.

The problems will come and go, just like the changing seasons,

but unselfish love is constant and everlasting.