Wedding Song

Written for my son and his bride on the occasion of their wedding.

WEDDING SONG

 ~That you each have found someone you want to spend your life with is a gift.

Realize it.

~That you will be able to wake up beside this person almost every day of your life is a gift.

Appreciate it.

~ At the end of your lives, you will remember the big things, the amazing trips, the once in a lifetime experiences, the hard times. But you will discover it is the small things that are most important.

~Maybe it will be the way he brushes your hair back from your forehead or takes your hand when you walk down the street. Maybe it will be the way she touches your shoulder when she passes your chair; unexpected, shared laughter; a sunset.

~If I could give you a gift above all others it would be this:

In the mad dash of your lives together,

Be conscious of it.

Be present

         Don’t be in such a hurry to make it happen that you forget it is happening.

Right here.

Right now.

This moment.

 “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

~William Wordsworth