August 14, 2006

• Wedding Vows

  Wedding vows are interesting.  They challenge you to think beyond starry-eyed gazes of the present and into a realistic future of real life – all the way up until the releasing of each other into forever.

  I love the strong contrasts that are presented.  I’ve written my own vows here which I made to Sam on August 12th:

  “I, Mary Ann, take you, Sam, to be my husband –
  to live together after God’s ordinance –
  in the holy estate of matrimony. 
  I will love you, comfort you, honor and keep you…

  in sickness and in health
  in poverty or wealth
  for better or for worse
  full of cheer or full of terse
  through all of life’s ups and downs
  joyful smiles and sorrowful frowns
  through thick and thin 
  goodness and sins
  others’ approving yeses and persecuting nopes
  realized dreams and dashed hopes
  in the heat of the desert or in the tropical rain
  when teeth are lost, hair is grayed and weight is gained
  sleeping on soft mattresses or dirt-packed floors
  getting everything we want or getting nothing more
  when our youth has passed and we’ve gone old
  when there’s nothing left but a hand to hold –

  I’ll cherish you
  I’ll be devoted to you
  the deepest parts of me
  will be my gift to thee
  I’ll forsake all others
  look at no other brothers

  and keep myself only unto you for as long as we both shall live.”

  —The wedding was so absolutely everything I would’ve wanted.  God made it so magnificent!!  — And now…off to the honeymoon!!

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