on marriage

I usually don't speak about these things. Everyone else has already done it, and I'm no champion on the subject so I usually stay away, but for now I'll share my experience on marriage


I went to a wedding in Atlanta this past weekend. Weddings are spilling with the gushiness of romance and all the beauties of love. It's the starting point to a lifetime of forever for better or worse; two separate hearts join to become one. While weddings are, or should be pure bliss, later on marriages may falter and many do not last. One beauty about this particular wedding was the emphasis on God as the core of the marriage to bind and seal the union of the couple.

The priest performed the vows then broke into song. "Jesus you're the Center of My Joy" echoed from his lips, filling the small Georgian chapel. In the last verses, he replaced "my" with "their", singing "Jesus you're the Center of their joy".

At the reception, the MC brought the point home once again. She voiced that with a solid vertical relationship with God, you can rest assured that the horizontal relationship of marriage will blossom. She gestured with her hands, the symbolism of the two which formed a lovely cross (†).


For now, the basics on entering a good marriage :)

the newlyweds ♥

Love: Photo Impression

Tingling hairs waved down my arm
As his fingertips inched on my skin
Thousands of tiny electric shocks
Moving with the sound of my pounding heart
Beating like African drums
to the chant of a Nigerian tribe

"I Love You"
the words danced in the air
Reaching my ears daintily
In that moment, our souls became as one
the world froze
And everything was perfect

 © 2010 by R. Alana Brereton

I do

Some say the three most meaningful words are "I Love You". Three short words with so much power when put together. This past Saturday I realized that there are two short words, a total of three letters that can transform two separate lives. The infamous words, "I do". Three letters and two tiny words, but declaring so much; A commitment to a lifetime of togetherness and melding formerly separate lives into one distinct union.


Yes these words can be revoked and bro ken a part. But at the altar in front of the witnessing of onlookers, it stands for commitment to the sacred union of marriage.