The Wedding Vows from Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch

Author:Neale Donald Walsch
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612830803
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing

If marriage allowed you to be unlimited, eternal, and free in your love, then it would be the ultimate announcement of love.

CWG 3 p. 222

The Wedding Vows

Minister:

__________ and __________ have not come here on this day to make a solemn promise or to exchange a sacred vow. They have already done that, long ago in their hearts.

__________ and __________ have come here to make public their commitment; to give noticement to their promise; to say again their vow—out loud and in your presence, out of their desire that we will all come to feel a very real and intimate part of their decision, and thus make it even more powerful.

They've also come here in the further hope that their ritual of bonding will help bring us all closer together. If you are here with a spouse or a partner, let this ceremony be a reminder—a rededication of your own loving bond.

We'll begin by asking the question: Why get married? __________ and __________ have answered this question for themselves, and they've told me their answer. Now I want to ask them one more time, so they can be sure of their answer, certain of their understanding, and firm in their commitment to the truth they share.

(Minister gets two red roses from table …)

This is the Ceremony of Roses, in which __________ and __________ share their understandings, and commemorate that sharing.

Now __________ and __________, you have told me it is your firm understanding that you are not entering into this marriage for reasons of security …

… that the only real security is not in owning or possessing, nor in being owned or possessed …

… not in demanding or expecting, and not even in hoping, that what you think you need in life will be supplied by the other …

… but rather, in knowing that everything you need in life … all the love, all the wisdom, all the insight, all the power, all the knowledge, all the understanding, all the nurturing, all the compassion, and all the strength … resides within you …

… and that you are not each marrying the other in hopes of getting these things, but in hopes of giving these gifts, that the other might have them in even greater abundance.

Is that your firm understanding now?

(They say, “It is.”)

And __________ and __________, you have told me it is your firm understanding you are not entering into this marriage as a means of in any way limiting, controlling, hindering, or restricting each other from any true expression and honest celebration of that which is the highest and best within you—including your love of God, your love of life, your love of people, your love of creativity, your love of work, or any aspect of your being which genuinely represents you, and brings you joy. Is that still your firm understanding now?

(They say, “It is.”)

Finally, __________ and __________, you have said to me that you do not see marriage as producing obligations, but rather as providing opportunities …

… opportunities for

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