Long and Happy Marriage

Anonymous · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject: Long and Happy Marriage

I would like to ask everyone to pray for my friends who were married the other day. I pray that their marriage be long and that they find the everlasting happiness which I have found in mine.

I have two prayers / blessings which I send them as they start their new life as husband and wife.

May you each bring your best self to the other.
May you each bring intelligence and commitment as well as faith to the task that is set before you.
May you maintain enduring respect and trust.
May your home be a place of peace and joy for you and for all who enter it.
May all who follow your lives with interest and affection have cause often to rejoice, not only in your happiness, but also in your brave and generous living.
Amen

May the sun of many days and years shine upon you;
May the love you have for one another grow and hold you close;
May the good true light within you guide you on your way together;
May your dreams come true, and when they do not, may new dreams arise.

In the words of Leo Tolstoy, may you each bring more love and truth into this world,
and may your marriage be the instrument that sustains you in this task.

And long, long years from now, may you look at one another and be able to say, "Because of you, I have lived the life I always wanted to live - because of you, I have become the person I longed to be."
Amen

May God Bless you and be with you all of your days... Laughing