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Bless this husband and Wife
Oh God of
love, you have established marriage for the welfare
and happiness, of mankind. Yours was the plan and
only with you can we work it out with joy. You have
said, "It is not good for man to be alone. I will
make a help-meet for him." Now our joys are doubled
since the happiness of one is the happiness of the
other. Our burdens now are halved since when we
share them, we divide the load.
Bless this husband. Bless him as provider of
nourishment and raiment and sustain him in all the
exaction's and pressures of his battle for bread.
May his strength be her protection, his character be
her boast and her pride, and may he so live that she
will find in him the haven for which the heart of a
woman truly longs.
Bless this loving wife. Give her a tenderness that
will make her great, a deep sense of understanding
and a great faith in you. Give her that inner beauty
of soul that never fades, that eternal youth that is
found in holding fast the things that never age.
Teach them that marriage is not living merely for
each other; it is two uniting and joining hands to
serve you.
Give them a
great spiritual purpose in life. May they seek first
the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and the
other things shall be added unto them. May they not
expect that perfection of each other that belongs
alone to you. May they minimize each other's
weaknesses, be swift to praise and magnify each
other's points of comeliness and strength, and see
each other through a lover's kind and patient eyes.
Now make such assignments to them on the scroll of
your will as will bless them and develop their
characters as they walk together. Give them enough
tears to keep them tender, enough hurts to keep them
humane, enough of failure to keep their hands
clenched tightly in yours, and enough of success to
make them sure they walk with God.
May they
never take each other's love for granted, but always
experience that breathless wonder that exclaims,
"Out of all this world you have chosen me." When
life is done and the sun is setting, my they be
found then as now still hand in hand, still thanking
God for each other. May they serve you happily,
faithfully, together, until at least one shall lay
the other in the arms of God. Amen.
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Bless this husband and Wife
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