I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die.
There is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
A friend is a gift, whose worth cannot be measured except by heart.
A faithful friend is beyond price, and there is no weighing of his goodness.
The most cherished thing in life is friendship. The most precious thing between us is understanding.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Friendship brings beauty to our days joys to our world.
Cease to struggle and you cease to live.
at works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
One man is no more than another if he does no more than another.
A man, like a watch, is to be valued by his manner of going.
The word not spoken
goes not quite unheard.
It lingers in the eye,
in the semi-arch of brow.
A gesture of the hand
speaks pages more than words,
The echo rests in the heart
as driftwood does in sand,
To be rubbed by time
until it rots or shines.
The word not spoken
touches us as music
does the mind.
amazing grace, how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me.
i once was lost but now i'm found,
was blind but now i see.
t'was grace that taught my heart to fear.
and grace my fear relieved
how precious did that grace appear,
the hour i first believed.
through many dangers, toils and snares
we have already come
t'was grace that brought us safe thus far
and grace will lead us home.
when we've been there ten thousand years
bright shining as the sun;
we've no less days to sing god's praise
than when we first begun.
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I,(Groom's name),take you (brede's name),to be my wife,my partner in life and my one true love.
I will cherish our friendship and love you today,tomorrow,and forever.
I will trust you and honor you.
I will laugh with you and cry with you.
I will love you faithfully.
Through the best and the worst,
Through the difficult and the easy.
What may come I will always be there.
As I have given you my hand to hold.
So I give you my life to keep.
So help me God.
I,(brede's name),take you (Groom's name),to be my husband,my partner in life and my one true love.
I will cherish our friendship and love you today,tomorrow,and forever.
I will trust you and honor you.
I will laugh with you and cry with you.
I will love you faithfully.
Through the best and the worst,
Through the difficult and the easy.
What may come I will always be there.
As I have given you my hand to hold.
So I give you my life to keep.
So help me God.
In unison
Entreat me not to leave you,or to return from following after you,
For where you go I will go,
and where you stay I will stay.
Your people will be my people,
and your God will be my God.
And where you die,I will die and there I will be buried.
May the Lord do with me and more if anything but death parts you from me.
i want to take this man/woman to my lawful wedded husband/wife,
to love him/her and cherish him/her,
for better or worse,for poorer and richer.
