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Blessing for a Marriage
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.
A mountain needs a valley to be complete; the valley
does not make the mountain less, but more; and the valley is more
a valley because it has a mountain towering over it.
So let it
be with you and you. May you need one another, but not out of weakness.
May you want one another, but not out of lack.
May you entice one another, but not compel one another.
May you embrace one another, but not out 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.
by James Dillet Freeman
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