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WEDDING: ADDRESS TO THE COUPLE
Words spoken to the wedding couple
{Name 1} and {Name 2}, we live at a time when very little in life is considered sacred. This day we celebrate a sacred agreement between the two of you. I congratulate you on the journey of your lives, on the strength and courage it has taken for each of you to make your way to this place. You have come into our midst, because you have chosen each other, and in doing that you are aware of God’s choice for you. That which has grown and become between you, fills you and all of us with joy and hope: the chance to see in our fellow human beings what love can make possible. May the love you feel for each other be a blessing to all those around you, and may God give you the love that binds everything together in perfect harmony.
{Name 1} and {Name 2}, out of the wild exuberance of creation, you two have appeared - each of you unique, distinctive, and wondrously human. You have chosen to journey together in the remaining moment of time that is yours. From this day forward, you are to become one unit of life. You are both called to a new existence. For the whole universe has come to you in the form of this particular person who has a unique love for you and is beloved by you.
What then is love? Love is sensing the other as a person. This must now be your mode of living. Love is receiving the feelings, thoughts, and intentions of the other into your own understanding. Love is faithfulness over the long haul. In life's day to day challenges, in the tension of differences, in the joy of being warmly human, in all the experiences of life, love must be faithful.
Love must share all the areas of life: body, mind, and spirit, until you are truly united with each other - one whole person united in joy with another whole person. Love is sharing together, talking together, listening together, until the harmonies of what it means to be fully human pulse also in you. In this love, let the giving love of God in Jesus be your example and strength.
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