Ceremony readings

these were my 2:

'The Velveteen Rabbit' by Margery Williams

'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?'

'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.'
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The Apache Song

May the sun bring you new energy by day
May the moon softly restore you by night
May the rain wash away your worries
And the breeze blow new strength into your being
And all the days of your life may you walk
Gently through the world and know its beauty.
Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be a shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness.
You are two bodies
But there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into your days together.
And may your days be good and long on the earth.

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Posted by kittythestray

these were my 2:

'The Velveteen Rabbit' by Margery Williams

'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?'

'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.'
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The Apache Song

May the sun bring you new energy by day
May the moon softly restore you by night
May the rain wash away your worries
And the breeze blow new strength into your being
And all the days of your life may you walk
Gently through the world and know its beauty.
Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be a shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness.
You are two bodies
But there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into your days together.
And may your days be good and long on the earth.

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Thank you so much!!!! They are both really beautiful I love the first one

The Apache Song

May the sun bring you new energy by day
May the moon softly restore you by night
May the rain wash away your worries
And the breeze blow new strength into your being
And all the days of your life may you walk
Gently through the world and know its beauty.
Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be a shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness.
You are two bodies
But there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into your days together.
And may your days be good and long on the earth.


We used this for our wedding also. It is really nice.

We used Touched by an Angel by Maya Angelou

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.