This Marriage By Rumi May these vows and this marriage be blessed. May it be sweet milk, this marriage, like wine and confection. May this marriage offer fruit and shade like the date palm. May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day a day in paradise. May this marriage be a sign of […]
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“Scaffolding” by Seamus Heaney Written by one of the most celebrated Irish poets, these words speak to the unbreakable bonds of love. Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding; Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints. And yet all this […]
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[From Dww-work]… THE BEST JOKES ABOUT MARRIAGE AND WEDDINGS The Wedding A little boy asked his father, “Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?” And the father replied, “I don’t know, son, I’m still paying for it.” Marriage A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. Zsa Zsa […]
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David Brooks, trying to figure out how American dating and marriage has gone wrong. He nails it: Aronson concluded that she had moved from the Russian Regime of Fate to the American Regime of Choice. “The most important requirement for choice is not the availability of multiple options,” she writes in Aeon magazine. “It is […]
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A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool. After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split. The waitress asked kindly, ‘Crushed nuts?’ ‘No,’ he replied, ‘Arthritis.’ Old Man Dating A senior citizen said to his eighty-year old buddy: ‘So I hear you’re […]
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One famous passion of this sort occurred between the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Their meeting of the minds took on a special drama, because it happened all in one night… “Their communion was primarily intellectual, emotional, and spiritual, creating a combination of friendship and love. If friends famously confront […]
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It was the concluding paragraph of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 28-page majority opinion — now making its way into wedding ceremonies for both gay and straight couples. “No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something […]
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A Pastoral Letter In Response To Marriage Redefinition This is well said on “marriage equality.” Posted by by Arwen McGilvra in News 18 Mar 2015 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We have reached a moment of change in the PC(USA) which some […]
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From Tim Stafford: Jeff and Janet Johnson, both long-time mentors of my daughter, shared the officiating in my daughter’s wedding. Janet made the case for marriage: Your love is priceless and needs to be guarded. Selfishness, pride, lack of forgiveness and inattentiveness are but some of the many thieves capable of stealing away your love. […]