On Marriage…..

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Kahil Gibran

I AM ALWAYS WITH YOU

When I go, you will not be left all alone;
I will come back to you.
In a little while the world will see me no more,
but you will see me, and because I live,
you also will live.
When that day comes,
you will know that I am in my Father
and that you are in me,
just as I am in you.

....Peace is what I leave with you;
it is my own peace that I give you.
I do not give it as the world does.
Do not be worried and upset;
Do not be afraid.
....John 14:18-20, 27

Sonnet

I wish I could remember that first day
First hour, first moment of your meeting me
If bright or dim the season, it might
Be Summer or Winter for aught I can say;
So unrecorded did it slip away
So blind was I to see and to foresee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That will not blossom yet for many a May
If only I could recollect it, such a
Day of days! I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow;
It seem'd to mean so little, meant so much;
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand --
Did one but know!

~ Christina Rossetti ~