Repost from '08...Readings...

Looking for one religious, and one non-religious...any suggestions? Any one use the Velveteen Rabbit reading?

'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 a child 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 all 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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Posted by gsw23db

my best friend got married this weekend and they used the velveteen rabbit reading... it was beautiful... had me in tears! you should totally do it!

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Did she have a child read it?

I'd forgotten how beautiful that is!

We've just started thinking about readings. We're going to have 1 religious and 1 other. The minister will (probably) do the religious one and my brother will hopefully do the other.