CENTERING

Please take a moment, calm your thoughts.  Let go of any anxieties
and remember the truth: That this is a world filled with beauty, that
your lives are filled with possibilities, while your dreams are being
born, nurtured and fulfilled.
Sometimes there are challenges and sorrow, but greater is your love
and joy.
The future may be uncertain, but that means that there is no limit as
to how beautiful, joyful and successful you can make it.
Any anxiety you may have about the future is only an illusion.  Let it
go.  Let if fade away as the beauty and perfection of right now
washes over you.
The best thing you can do for the future is to live with everything
you have in the present.
What you have together, right now, is completely as it should be.
It is your time to live.
Right now, you are creating real, lasting and positive values for your
world.
You are following your heart.
Breathe in the beauty and love that is around you.  It is your gift.  It
is your good fortune.  It is yours to live, to experience and to fulfill.  
Right now.
FOR CEREMONIES NEAR THE FOREST

In the glow of the forest, in the shadows of the trees, in the
fullness of nature, you offer yourselves to each other as
husband and wife.  May you continue to change, constantly
grow and never cease to invigorate the living thing that is
your love while you reach for the skies.
EARTH ELEMENTS

AIR: May you have communication,
intellectual growth and wisdom.
FIRE: May you have harmony, vitality,
creativity and passion.
WATER: May you have friendship, intuition,
caring, understanding and love.
EARTH: May you have tenderness, happiness,
compassion and sensuality.
FOR CEREMONIES NEAR THE OCEAN

As the sea is eternal, so is your love.  As the wind is all
encompassing, so is your love.  As the earth is solid
beneath your feet, so is your love.  Dear friends you
are the sea and the land.  It is not your purpose to
become each other, but rather to recognize each other
and learn to see and honor each other for what you are:
each other's opposite and complement!

We meet by the sea, so that you may become one by
the border of this constant and unlimited force.  As
these waters are limitless, flowing and ever changing,
so is your love.  May your love hold within it the
essence of life.

In pledging your lives and love to one another, for all
the days that remain to you, you acknowledge the
changes in your existence, and celebrate your
commitment to a strong, aware relationship.  May your
love touch and enrich all those with whom you come
in contact, as these waters touch and nourish the many
shores of the Earth!