tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69719662059378288882024-02-20T08:17:13.540-08:00Nature Spirit WeddingsSharing with couples planning wedding celebrations and vow renewals.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-14004034060223943792012-12-05T10:37:00.000-08:002012-12-05T10:37:00.040-08:00From Rumi<div style="text-align: center;">
From Rumi:</div>
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Let yourself be silently drawn</div>
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by the stronger pull</div>
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of what you really love.</div>Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-73015947596030646802012-11-14T09:53:00.000-08:002012-11-14T09:53:00.081-08:00You are a gift to one another<style type="text/css">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>From one of my ceremonies: </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You
are a gift to one another. You are asked to love one another and in
that love you both my find yourselves--strong and beautiful--that the
entire world might be blessed by your presence.</span></div>Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-31368944733531437682012-10-10T09:44:00.000-07:002012-10-10T09:44:00.728-07:00Vow Renewal with Child<style type="text/css">
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Vow Renewal with Child:</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">_____ and ____, you are here today in this beautiful place to express
your love for one another in the presence of your dearest friends and
family. You have a relationship already blessed with joy and
love, no more evidence required than the presence of sweetest Baby
S____, and also tested by trials and challenges that life brings...
Those challenges are nothing more than lessons shared for the purpose
of growth. Shared growth with a common purpose…</span></div>Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-69312278474997813702012-09-12T09:12:00.000-07:002012-09-12T09:12:00.671-07:00Ring Blessing<style type="text/css">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>RING
BLESSING</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Circles have no beginning and have no end, and so in the
long and sacred tradition of marriage, rings have come to symbolize
eternal love and endless union of body, of mind, and of the spirit. </span></div>Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-61793256628515581882012-08-15T09:14:00.000-07:002012-08-15T09:14:00.369-07:00Cherokee Blessing<style type="text/css">
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Another reading for a ceremony:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cherokee Blessing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">God
in heaven above please protect the ones we love. We honor all you
created as we pledge our hearts and lives together. We honor Mother
Earth and ask for our marriage to be abundant and grow stronger
through the seasons. We honor fire and ask that our union be warm and
glowing with love in our hearts. We honor wind and ask that we sail
through life safe and calm as in our father's arms. We honor water to
clean and soothe our relationship -- that it may never thirst for
love. With all the forces of the universe you created, we pray for
harmony as we grow forever young together. </span>
</div>Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-5253035429277816892012-08-01T08:58:00.000-07:002012-08-01T08:58:00.125-07:00Apache Wedding Blessing<style type="text/css">
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<span style="font-size: small;">A popular reading for ceremonies: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Apache Wedding Blessing </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now
you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the
other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be
companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only
one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the
days of your life together. May your days be good and long upon the
earth. May the blessings of the Great Spirit, be with you to guide
you this day and forevermore....</span></div>Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-7814699647536430002012-07-04T08:02:00.000-07:002012-07-04T08:02:00.526-07:00Thoughts on Marriage<style type="text/css">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;"><i>A couple included this in a ceremony</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">Here
are some thoughts on marriage from</span></div>
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Robert Heinlen: </span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">Why
is it that marriage, by whatever name, is a universal institution
among human beings everywhere? Don’t ask a theologian, don’t ask
a lawyer; this institution existed long before it was codified by
church or state.</span></div>
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Marriage is as much
a part of mankind’s evolutionary equipment as his eyes, and as
useful to the race as eyes are to an individual. It works, that’s
all: for all its faults it works far better by the only universal
test—survival—than any of the endless inventions that fools over
the millennia have tried to substitute for it. </span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">Companionship,
partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with and grieve
with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone to hold
your hand—these things are marriage, and it gives deep happiness to
those who share it.</span></div>Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-61838596698436934322012-06-20T08:00:00.001-07:002012-06-20T08:01:31.570-07:00Cup Ceremony<style type="text/css">
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In a recent ceremony the couple included a cup ceremony:</div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
hold up the empty cup.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">"This
cup is symbolic of the new life you are about to begin together. As
you pour your wine into this cup, you pledge yourselves to a new
future, together."</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(The bride and groom
each take a cup and pour wine (or water) into the third cup.)</span></span></h4>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">I
hold up the cup.</span></i></h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">"From
this moment on, let your lives be intermingled as the wine within
this cup: each brings its own character, and together they become
something more than they once were."</span></h4>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I see deeply into your loving nature.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I remember to let go of everything but love.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i> In this every moment I remember our Oneness.</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>. <i> </i> </div>Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-2085903397116158702010-10-01T01:55:00.000-07:002010-10-01T01:55:00.692-07:00Vow Phrase for Octoberer 1, 2010to give appreciation<br />
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See more vow phrases at <a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-62547905278401506242010-09-14T01:47:00.000-07:002010-09-14T01:47:00.287-07:00Vow Phrase for September 14, 2010in gratitude for our friendship<br />
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See more vow phrases at <a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>. Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-92020277211339690622010-09-03T11:41:00.000-07:002010-09-03T11:46:08.230-07:00Vow Phrase for September 3, 2010celebrate this bonding of love<br />
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See more vow phrases at <a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-78940919385050994192010-09-01T00:20:00.000-07:002010-09-01T00:20:00.362-07:00Vow Phrase for September 1, 2010in the spirit of tenderness<br />
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See more vow phrases at <a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-43312550527311064032010-08-17T12:18:00.000-07:002010-08-17T12:18:00.108-07:00Vow Phrase for August 17, 2010as we embrace each other with deep compassion<br />
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See more vow phrases at <a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-8755292013727433052010-08-14T12:18:00.000-07:002010-08-14T12:18:05.798-07:00Vow Phrase for August 14, 2010to give and accept forgiveness<br />
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See more vow phrases at <a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-5125821640394872212010-08-01T13:39:00.000-07:002010-08-01T13:39:00.249-07:00Vow Phrase for August 1, 2010<i>recognize and honor our intention</i><br />
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See more vow phrases at <a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-7824657105387536802010-07-27T01:31:00.000-07:002010-07-27T01:31:00.182-07:00Vow Phrase for July 27, 2010<i>act of love and commitment</i><br />
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See more vow phrases at <a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-27567468232237638962010-07-26T13:24:00.000-07:002010-07-26T13:46:23.902-07:00Vow Phrase for July 26, 2010<i>the power of the shared heart</i><br />
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See more vow phrases at <a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/">http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/vows/</a>.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-50591347756585370712010-07-07T08:24:00.000-07:002010-07-07T08:24:06.192-07:00CommitmentMoving toward Oneness...<br />
The study and practice of the Essential Spirit of Love.Nancy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161699269307541024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971966205937828888.post-72517429197658473742010-05-19T07:49:00.000-07:002010-05-19T07:49:20.874-07:00First Time Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRy_i4xlDNEzRRQBdufd-rHBtEOgg89MouY6B8HJ4-plDRI54gZW5-KUIQuZUQs1RPzoU_-N0fyFjBJfzBdQdy5GsfgqaWUDfZObG3XWrIWrjUKpUBuzq29l1Ogj50KFBSJtJaSYxwe_s1/s1600/Picture+117_600X800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRy_i4xlDNEzRRQBdufd-rHBtEOgg89MouY6B8HJ4-plDRI54gZW5-KUIQuZUQs1RPzoU_-N0fyFjBJfzBdQdy5GsfgqaWUDfZObG3XWrIWrjUKpUBuzq29l1Ogj50KFBSJtJaSYxwe_s1/s200/Picture+117_600X800.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Touching Hearts ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">I'll be sharing phrases to inspire wedding and renewal vows.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Vows are a retreating from the noise of this world. Take time every day to share love and appreciation.<br />
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Blessings,<br />
Nancy </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.naturespiritweddings.com/">www.naturespiritweddings.com</a><br />
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