Friends:  I want to thank each and everyone of you for the beautiful emails, cards and blessings I have received since my marriage to Steve.  I can't believe it has been 1 month already.  Time really does fly by even when you try to capture it and slow it down.  I was just re-reading a reading from my wedding that my friend from Houston Texas read at the Wedding.  We have been friends for 50 years.  I wanted to share this reading with you all if there is enough room here as it is so beautiful. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.  It is entitled:

Why Marriage by Mari Nichols....

Because to the depths of me, I long to love one person, with all my heart, my soul, my mind, my body..because I need a forever friend to trust with the intimacies of me, who won't hold them against me, who loves me when I am unlikable, who sees the small child in me and who looks for the divine potential of me...Because I need to cuddle in the warmth of the night with someone who thanks God for me, with someone I feel blessed to hold...Because Marriage means opportunity to grow in love and friendship...Because Marriages do not fail, people fail when they enter into marriage expecting another to make them whole...Because, knowing this, I promise myself to take full responsibility for my spiritual, mental and physical wholeness, I create me, I take half the responsibility for my marriage together we create our marrage..Because with this understanding the possibilities are limitless.  You are a part of everything I think and do and feel, and with you by my side, I believe that anything is possible.  This day gives me a chance to thank you for the miracle of you..You are, and always will be, the love of my life.