Showing posts with label wedding poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding poem. Show all posts

Thursday, July 7, 2022

A Wedding Prayer


No matter how solid and secure love feels on the day of the wedding
that wicked old deceiver and destroyer , the devil,
will soon start to find subtle, or not so subtle ways to try to
wedge his way in to weaken and fray the tie that binds two into one

Matt. 19:6
So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

If any thing is needful of constant attention and prayer
it is surely each and every one of our marriages!
Or, over and above that, our faith in Jesus 
and devotion to His counsel to guide and instruct.
Strong faith makes strong marriages/ families.
Strong marriages/families make strong nations.

Don't you feel like an honored wedding-guest as you enjoy the fruit
of carefully thought out and arranged details?!!


Dessert!

...and of course a lot of people-pictures that are not mine to share💖

This is the poem I put in the cards for the bride and groom 
of the two recent weddings I/we had the honor of attending

A Wedding Prayer

I pray the Lord to bless this new life that your vows begin
A little like a bud still unfolding the bloom within
And as the years go by, I pray by God’s grace, love bestows
Beauty we cannot see until the bud unfolds the rose

I pray God’s mercy crowns the ups and down that wait to be
As love withstands dues and demands because love’s strands are Three
And someday, looking back I pray that joy will awe your heart
Today, but the beginning of love’s sacred, sweetest part

I pray the honor that you feel for each other today
Will deepen and strengthen into a cord that cannot fray
I pray that God will help you keep love faithful, kind and true
As what God joins this happy day only death can undo

Janet Martin

Eccles.4:12
Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

For Better or Worse...


 Thanking God for the privilege of being able 
to celebrate 32 years of marriage today, by His grace...
Part of what I love about Jim is his never-ending ability to make me laugh.
I think he was waiting for an anniversary post cause he just saw it and texted me this
"I look like a pylon"😂

For better or for worse; who knows what factors will unfold
To test and try the caliber of vows to have and hold
This life of highs and lows husband and wife must jointly meet
To weather together both woe and wonders bittersweet

Marriage is no band-wagon that we board and disembark
According to our whims and wants; it is till death doth part
So from the words ‘I do’ we ought to keep this thought in mind
To help us strive to be more unselfish, patient and kind

For better or for worse is not a curse or ball and chain
It is the grace of sharing both love's pleasure and its pain 
It is full of surprises after groom kisses the bride
After two become one and discover love's 'other side' 😉

Marriage is more than signatures on a certificate
Two become one and none on earth its bond can abrogate
For what the Lord has joined His Hand alone will disannul
Till death doth part is not for faint of heart or disloyal

Marriage is learning to forgive and give more than we take
It’s saying I am sorry and admitting a mistake
It’s meeting in the middle toward a mutual aim
It’s learning to adapt to change; nobody stays the same

Marriage; it takes two but is always happier with Three
Husband and wife, with God as the crowning Supremacy
Where pray, that day by day and year by year as vows are tried
Marriage reflects the love that Heaven’s Groom has for His Bride

© Janet Martin

 Sharing Jean Hersey's practical and timeless thoughts on marriage
from the book The Shape of a Year
(hope you can read it...I couldn't choose a favourite paragraph) 



Jim and I are both Don Williams fans...
choosing these today

 


 

Monday, May 18, 2020

A Wedding Blessing For Couples Getting Married During Covid-19


 Sometimes my oldest sister calls to ask if I have written or would/could consider writing a poem about a certain topic. This was such a time. She was looking for a poem to put in wedding cards where they are invited guests but are unable to attend due to social distancing. I am sharing it in hopes that it may bless and comfort the couples who do  not have the joy of a traditional wedding...


Love suffers long and it is kind; bears and believes all things
It endures and secures us in the troubles that life brings
Love never fails, the Great Sustain-er in times hard and strange
When cruel disappointment allows things we cannot change

Dear Lord, we know that You behold this lovely bride and groom
And how they miss what’s missing in the Ceremony Room
Then Lord, instill the absence of dear friends and family
With Your fulfilling Presence and love’s divine sympathy

Be near to we who are with them in thought if not in form
Grant us Thy perfect peace, (not as the world gives) in this storm
Satisfy pain with promises that nothing can replace
Surprise the bitter blow with joy possible by Your grace

Thou, Favoured Wedding Guest, fill emptiness with comfort sweet
Lord, bless this day with happiness and make their joy complete
Where, as from this day forward, they, no longer two but one
Have learned, from the beginning who Greater, to lean upon

And as they vow to love each other faithfully always
Lord, fill us with thanksgiving that will fill Your courts with praise
And Lord we pray that You will shelter them close to Your heart
With Your goodness and mercy to follow till death doth part

© Janet Martin

Surely Goodness and Mercy will follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever
Psalm 23:6

Sunday, May 6, 2018

These Ties That Bind (are not unkind)


Marriage; it always feels so 'doable' (and it is!!)
when sitting in to witness two lives becoming one,
when we are re-impressed and re-reminded of its 'beauties and duties'
 Whether one has been married one year or in our case almost thirty, 
there's always something we can apply to our own versions of 'wedded bliss',
because sometimes hug and kiss hits rumble-strips and we need to slow down and re-evaluate
what and how we are doing at 'love is not self-seeking'
then recommitting to...
Love is patient, love is kind. 
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.  
Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. 
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  
Love never fails. 
1 Cor.13:4-8  

Yesterday we celebrated two beautiful lives becoming one!

God bless you, Jamie and Becca 


( Enjoying beautiful post-wedding blooms today, gifted to us by the Mother of the bride)


Two words “I do”
And what was two
Is melded into one
What God has joined
Til death does part
Can never be undone

These ties that bind
Are not unkind
Love’s vows, promised for life
Take ‘he’ and ‘she’
And make it ‘we’
Forever, husband-wife

A miracle
None can annul
God seals what He ordains
With sacred pledge
Two lives are wed
As long as life remains

Oh, happy day
Then come what may
Love bears, believes, endures
With solemn word
God ties the cord
That love’s “I do” secures

From this day forth
For better-worse
Through living’s high and low
Love’s ties that bind
Will not unwind
Until God wills it so

© Janet Martin





















Monday, May 22, 2017

Love's Vows (a Wedding Poem)



We attended our nephew's wedding on Saturday. 
A wedding is always a good time to be reminded and reflect on vows we made on our own wedding day,
however recently or not we vowed them...
God bless, guard and keep the sacredness of marriage true and strong!

Once you were strangers and far, far apart
Now and forever love binds heart to heart
Shoulder to shoulder, through life’s worst or best
Love’s vows unbroken will triumph each test

Nothing on earth can undo what is done
Solemn the vows that meld two into one
Tethered forever to weather what waits
Love’s vows unite two hearts into soulmates

Cherish with honor these words that you say
Defend the promises you make today
Always remember in life’s push and pull
Love’s vows once spoken, nothing can annul

God bless with happiness, these ties that bind
Keeping, through His love, this love true and kind
For, from this day forward, while God grants your life
Love’s vows have sealed you as husband and wife

© Janet Martin