SONG of SONGS 8:6-7
New International Version
Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.
Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
all the wealth of one’s house for love,
it would be utterly scorned.
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Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
~John Donne
Myra and JV
August 30, 2014
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
~William Shakespeare
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
~William Shakespeare
We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end. ~Benjamin DisraeliShe loves him; for her infinite soul is love,
And he her lodestar, Passion in her is
A glass, a stranger's amorous flame to prove,
And it shall turn, by instant contraries,
Ice to the moon, while her pure fire to his
For whom it burns, clings close i' the heart's alcove.
Lo! They are one. With wifely breast to breast
And circling arms, she welcomes all command
Of love,-her soul to answering ardours fann'd:
Yet as morn springs or twilight sinks to rest,
Ah! who shall say she deems not loveliest
The hour of sisterly sweet hand-in-hand?
~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, HER LOVE
"Name the day of marriage and God give thee joy."
~William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
~William Shakespeare (Sonnet CXVI)
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ONCE TO MEET AND LOVE
By Michael A. Taylor
No night yet has failed to end
Nor Sun to rise and light to come,
Nor fortune and misfortune fail to pass,
For these lie beyond the gift of Man.
Tears survive but moments on the lips
Which touch with love a loved one's cheek.
So may it come to be with you again,
May a smile once more ignite your smile,
A hand reach eagerly for yours,
And two be as two were gently meant to be -
Once to meet and love,
Then countless times again.
Source: Poems From Exile
November 1, 2019
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"Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." ~Matthew 19:6 KJV
"My beloved is mine, and I am his." ~Song of Solomon 2:16
"May each day of your life together taste as sweet as it does today." ~Anon
"May each day of your life together taste as sweet as it does today." ~Anon
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"If you can find a truly good wife, she is worth more than precious gems! When she speaks, her words are wise, and kindness is the rule for everything she says." ~Proverbs 31:10, 26 (Living Bible)How To Have a Happy Marriage
1. Never yell at each other unless the house is on fire.
2. If one of you has to win an argument, let it be your mate. Remember, it takes two to make a quarrel
3. If you feel you must criticize, do so lovingly.
4. Never bring up mistakes of the past.
5. Neglect the whole world rather than one another.
6. Never go to sleep mad.
7. If you have a choice between making yourself or your mate look good — choose your mate
8. Always meet and depart with an affectionate greeting.
9. Spend quality time together — having a profound conversation, taking a long nature walk, sharing a hobby or project.
10. Never let the day end without saying at least one kind or complimentary thing to your life partner.
11. When you have done something wrong, be ready to admit it and ask to be forgiven.
~ A letter published in "Dear Abby" from a couple who reached their 50th anniversary and successfully made their marriage a promise for life.
"To keep love brimming in the loving cup, when you're wrong admit it and when you're right shut up!" ~Ogden Nash
RECIPE FOR A VITAL MARRIAGE
Use equal parts of: Care, Love, Friendship, Passion and Respect
Blend with much Understanding and lots of Forgiveness.
Bake continuously in the oven of Commitment and Trust.
Baste often and liberally with a Sense of Humor.
Serve with plenty of communication in a problem solving atmosphere (especially good when shared with loving family and friends.)
Note: This is a tricky recipe that requires careful attention and the participation of both works. When it falls flat, check all ingredients and increase amounts as needed. Prepare it often for best results.
Source: New Lander's Column via FB courtesy from Rowena Caranto
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"Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
For each of you will be warmth to each other.
Now you will feel no loneliness,
For each of you will be comfort to the other.
Now you are two persons,
But there is only one life before you.
Go forward from this place,
To enter into the days of your life together."
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"A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it." ~Mignon McLaughlin
"A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together." ~James H. Boren
"A good husband should be deaf, and a good wife should be blind." ~French Proverb
"A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: It is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of unresolvable differences." ~Dr. James Dobson
"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband." ~Michel de Montaigne
"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life." ~Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." ~Andre Maurois
"A happy marriage is a thing of slow growth." ~Graham Greene
"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." ~Ruth Bell Graham
"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home." ~Chinese Proverb
"A Man and a Woman, brought together by God and kept together by love, faith and an undying commitment to never give up on each other." ~Anon
"A marriage makes of two fractional lines a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning nature a reason for living, and something to live for." ~Mark Twain
"A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough." ~Mignon McLaughlin
"A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on days when they struggle to like each other." ~Dave Willis
"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day." ~Andre Maurois
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." ~Mignon McLaughlin
"All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." ~Helen Keller
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in here." ~Agatha Christie
"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband." ~Booth Tarkington
"Appreciation is a big component of marriage." ~Robin McGraw
"As a general rule, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is." ~William Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic (1960)
"Be sure, before you marry, of a house wherein to tarry." ~Proverb
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." ~Socrates
"Chains do not hold a marriage together: It is threads, hundreds of tiny beads which sew people together through the years." ~Simone Signoret
"Challenges come and go in marriage, but a beautiful marriage will stand the test of time, any day any time." ~Kalu Igwe
"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play." ~William Congreve
"Create the marriage you want, and let your wedding rings remind you of the love and commitment you share as husband and wife." ~Aaron and April Jacob
"Don't marry anyone who won't bait their own hook." ~Wiley Dobbs
"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without." ~James C. Dobson
“Ever thine ever mine ever ours” ~Beethoven
"For true love involves a giving, a sharing of plans, hopes and dreams between two people who want to build an entire life together until death does them part." ~Roderick C. Meredith
"Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." ~Robert Browning
"Happily married people do not ignore problems. If something is wrong - they do something about it." ~Alisa Bowman
"Happiness is having a husband who is also your best friend." ~Anon
"Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry." ~Tom Mullen
"Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented!" ~Heinrich Heine
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"I choose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well." ~Oliver Goldsmith
"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.' ~Lyndon B. Johnson
"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother." ~Martha Gellhorn
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." ~Rita Rudner
"I married my husband for better or worse, but not for lunch." ~Leigh Carleton
"I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, 'Be kind to one another.' This is the golden rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years." ~Rudolph Ray
"In marriage it is never having my way. It is rather discovering our way." ~Gary Chapman
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness." ~Kahlil Gibran
"Like blood, like good, and like age make the happiest marriages." ~Proverb
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain." ~William Shakespeare
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage." ~Finnish Proverb
"Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman rally knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." ~Mark Twain
"Man and woman may only enter Paradise hand in hand. Together they left it, and together they must return." ~Richard Garnett
"Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." ~Ambrose Bierce
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." ~Samuel Johnson
"Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose." ~Beverly Nichols
"Marriage is a lifelong process of discovering each other more deeply." Ingrid Trobisch
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open." ~George Bernard Shaw
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.' ~George Bernard Shaw
"Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen." ~Betty Jane Wylie
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them." ~Ogden Nash
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears - so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." ~Sydney Smith
"Marriage with peace is the world's paradise: with strife, this life's purgatory." ~Proverb
"Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking." ~Portuguese Proverb
"May the love we share and the happiness of today be always in your heart." ~Anon
"More things belong in marriage than four legs in bed." ~John Heywood
"Musical marriage is one scripted with balance and scored in harmony... It has positives and negatives..." ~Leah C. Dancel, 8 June 2016
"Name the day of marriage and God give thee joy." ~William Shakespeare
"Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night." ~Paul Hornung
"Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work." ~Anon
"No man knows what the wife of his bosom is-
no man knows what a ministering angel she is-
unless he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world." Washington Irving
"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again." ~Judith Viorst
"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman." ~Joseph Joubert
"Remember it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman." ~William Thackeray
"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other." ~Dalai Lama
"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always." ~Dante Alighieri
"Revere, cherish, honour." ~Anon
"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset." ~Ann Landers
"Spoil your husband, but don't spoil your children." ~Louise Currey
"The art of staying happily married is the greatest of all the arts, because everything that is fine and decent about our world depends on the skill with which men and women practice this art." ~Robert W Burns
"The happiness of married life is in making small sacrifices with gracefulness and cheerfullness." ~Jonathan Swift TFBFG 1998/mpw
"The highest happiness on earth is marriage." ~William Lyon Phelps
"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open." ~Groucho Marx
"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his wife." ~Will Durant
"The sum which to married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity." ~Goethe
"The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life." ~Oscar Wilde
"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." ~Martin Luther
"There is nothing more beautiful in this world than when two hearts come together to become a greater one." ~Robert Clancy
"To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all." ~Helen Rowland
"We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end." ~Benjamin Disraeli
"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight." ~Phyllis Diller
"A successful marriage, like a well-tended garden, takes constant care and loving attention." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr."What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together ... to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories." ~George Eliot
"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them." ~Martin Buber
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ANNIVERSARY QUOTES</>
“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” ~Paul Sweeney
VERSES:
"I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife." ~Anon
"Let me not to the marriage
of true minds
Admit impediments.
Love is not love
Which alters when it
alteration finds,
Or tends with the remover
to remove:
O, no! it is an ever - fixed mark."
~William Shakespeare
"Nothing in this world is single,
all things by laws divine in
one spirit mix and mingle;
why not I with thine?"
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The ring, so worn as you behold,
So thin, so pale, is yet of gold:
The passion such it was to prove -
Worn with life's care, love yet was love."
~George Crabbe
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife." ~Anon
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"Let me not to the marriage
of true minds
Admit impediments.
Love is not love
Which alters when it
alteration finds,
Or tends with the remover
to remove:
O, no! it is an ever - fixed mark."
~William Shakespeare
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"Nothing in this world is single,
all things by laws divine in
one spirit mix and mingle;
why not I with thine?"
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The ring, so worn as you behold,
So thin, so pale, is yet of gold:
The passion such it was to prove -
Worn with life's care, love yet was love."
~George Crabbe
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
By Christopher Effiong
As the fragrance of flowers spread only in the direction of the wind so shall your love spread in the direction of abundance.
If nothing can stop the sun from rising in the morning and the blooming of roses in spring time so no power of hell will stop your love from its ascension !
Just as a waterfall cannot be silent so your roar of love shall not become a languid echo, it shall not go into extinction !
Through the fiercest of storms, scariest of nights and the grimmest of circumstances, your love shall tower high like Everest !
May this day bring unspeakable joy and unending blessings. Happy wedding anniversary. Lots of love !
#Chrisword
Source: ILA Magazine
By permission
February 12, 2022
THANK YOU
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