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> Around Your Table
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>> Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways... your children will be like olive plants around your table.
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Occasion: Wedding
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Lord, two families become one today.
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Two names on one line.
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Two chairs pulled up to one table.
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Bless what is beginning here ---
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not only the vows,
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but the years after them:
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the ordinary Tuesdays,
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the shared bills,
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the small kindnesses that carry more weight than the big promises.
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Keep them quick to forgive,
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slow to keep score.
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Teach them to argue like two people who are staying,
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not two people looking for the door.
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Let their table hold whatever the years bring ---
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quiet suppers or crowded ones,
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the same two chairs or many more,
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every one of them a gift.
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You have brought them to this day, Lord.
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Bring them the rest of the way,
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one ordinary day at a time.
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Amen. |