i found the perfect reading for a wedding ceremony or toast

For love, it’s all about bringing energy into the bond that strengthens it even as everything else changes and falls apart around it. That’s why long-term relationships require a renewed daily commitment. It’s why a running life requires an evolving appreciation of the joy of each day. Heck, it might work for dogs, too.

Care and love, for us, are pronounced clearest through service:

For learning to live happily even after, finding a way to forgive the unforgivable, and to move forward in life graciously with hope in our hearts and goodwill in our gestures and in our words, may very well be the essence of what it is to truly love each other.

Marriage ceremony: a couple making hopeful vows on behalf of two people whom they don’t know – and who won’t exist for another twenty years.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer once offered a famous piece of advice to a young couple on their wedding day: “Today, you are young and very much in love and you think that your love can sustain your marriage. It can’t. Let your marriage sustain your love.”