Just One More...

**UPDATED**

...because I'm a romantic fool.



Yeah, it's a commercial, but it's very well done! It reminds me of a meditation written by the late Rev. Elizabeth Tarbox, "The Wedding," which is in a collection I have at home. I'll post the book title later - but I think it's something like Evening Tide...

"The Wedding"
- By Elizabeth Tarbox

I stand before two men who are facing each other.

Their hands are clasped as if in a traditional handshake.
They are speaking to one another.

They say, “You are the life that brings me life. From the moment of our first meeting, I knew that God had brought us together.”

They choke on the words, their faces are wet, but their hands are clasped and the words come.

I look from one to the other.

I watch their eyes, their mouths, their hands.

I am in the presence of the holy.

I tell the people, “This union is blessed by God; I do pronounce these men partners in life.”

And then, they kiss.

from: Evening Tide: Meditations by Elizabeth Tarbox; Boston, MA: Skinner House Books, 1998.