Wedding Celebrants and Interfaith Ministers

 This messge comes from my daily refection with the One Spirit Learning Alliance. I graduated from the New Seminary in 2000 but now associate with the One Spirit Learning Alliance. Rev. Diane Berke was the director at The New Seminary then went on to create One Spirit Learning Alliance which resonates with my path as an Interfaith minister and Wedding Celebrant. This reading reminds all of us of how vitally important it is to tend our own souls in order to seek union with another. Love it!

September 16, 2013 If we are to live without silencing or numbing essential parts of who we are, a vow must be invoked and upheld within oneself. The same commitments we pronounce when embarking on a marriage can be understood internally as a devotion to the care of one's soul: to have and to hold ... for better or for worse ... in sickness and in health ... to love and to cherish, till death do us part.  This means staying committed to your inner path. This means not separating from yourself when things get tough or confusing. This means accepting and embracing your faults and limitations. It means loving yourself no matter how others see you. It means cherishing the unchangeable radiance that lives within you, no matter the cuts and bruises along the way. It means binding your life with a solemn pledge to the truth of your soul.   Mark Nepo,  The Book of Awakenin