[PDF] Twenty Poems To Bless Your Marriage eBook

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 083484513X

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Poems can teach us in ways that surpass other forms of understanding, especially when the subject concerns matters of the heart. When the heart’s whispers are too faint for us to hear in ordinary ways, poetry can speak to us with another kind of eloquence. From the leap of joy that a couple takes on their wedding day to a fiftieth wedding anniversary that acknowledges the deep connection that a life together can bring, marriage takes us on a journey that passes through seasons and stages, peaks and valleys. This book honors that journey through twenty poems that celebrate and illuminate some of these major stages and provides not only inspiration for the journey but also solace and wisdom. Roger Housden, the author of Ten Poems to Change Your Life, provides essential insights into the poems, creating a collection of reflective prose and poetry that makes this an inspirational guidebook as much as a volume of poetry. In Twenty Poems to Bless Your Marriage, Roger Housden offers poems and essays that will give voice to your heart, offering up words and wisdom not just for special occasions but to act as friends and guides to refer to throughout the life of a marriage.

Author : D. J. "Pop-P Wooten
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2006-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1597819727

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The purpose of this book is to present eternal marriage truths in poetic form. I am trusting the seed that is sown will produce an abundant harvest.

Author : Shanetria Yvette Peterson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1438264372

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This book is exclusively for Christian married couples. Eighty poems created with the anointing and blessing with God ordained couples in mind! This book contains twenty awesome and well-written poems. Look for Volume 2 in C.D. form!

Author : June Cotner
Publisher : Crown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780767913461

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A beautiful collection of poems, prayers, and toasts for all marriage celebrations. Finding the right words about love for a wedding or anniversary can be difficult. In Wedding Blessings, June Cotner has collected perfect selections for the bride, groom, members of the wedding party, and other family and friends to share. From verses and vows to prayers and toasts, the sentiments of Wedding Blessings will help make any marriage celebration more memorable. With selections devoted to "anniversaries" and "Reflections", Wedding Blessings also serves as a tribute to and affirmation of marriage. Filled with inspiration and timeless words by renowned authors such as Robert Browning, Rainer Maria Rilke, the Persian poet Rumi, as well as many contemporary writers, this spiritual, multi-faith anthology offers true gems suitable for all aspects of weddings, anniversaries, and vow-renewal ceremonies. Wedding Blessings is a wonderful gift for the bride-to-be and others celebrating the union of marriage.

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1608685306

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In his bestselling Ten Poems series, Roger Housden has shown an uncanny ability to choose and discuss poems that strike at the core of readers’ concerns and needs. In this new volume, ten extraordinary poems, along with Housden’s incisive essays, bring heartfelt insight and broad perspective both to our personal challenges and to our cultural and collective malaise. Ten Poems for Difficult Times is the perfect gift for oneself or for anyone in need of solace and inspiration. Ten Poems for Difficult Times “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass “The Quarrel” by Conrad Aiken “Cutting Loose” by William Stafford “Rain Light” by W. S. Merwin “How the Light Comes” by Jan Richardson “Now You Know the Worst” by Wendell Berry “A Brief for the Defense” by Jack Gilbert “It’s This Way” by Nazim Hikmet “Annunciation” by Marie Howe

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1608684075

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Is it possible to fully accept, even love, the life you have? Is it possible to drop the struggle to make yourself and your life different? Acclaimed teacher and bestselling author Roger Housden says yes in this profound alternative to nonstop striving and self-criticism. Whether about our relationships, careers, or spirituality, many of us judge ourselves as not measuring up. But fulfillment comes when we stop struggling and learn to trust the wisdom of what life presents us with. Housden wrote Dropping the Struggle as someone who, up until a few years ago, spent much of his time in a covert struggle with life. Despite his success, he often felt that something was missing. He struggled for years with an ongoing spiritual longing, with questions of meaning and purpose, with the search for love, with all the usual difficulties of being human, until he finally realized — though not with his thinking mind — that the only thing life was asking of him was to rest in a deeper knowing that was always there, usually silently, behind the arguments and strategies that would so commonly occupy his conscious self. “Struggle will never get us the things we want most,” Housden writes, “love; meaning; presence; freedom from anxiety over the past and future; contentment with ourselves exactly as we are, imperfections and all; the acceptance of our mortality — because these things lie outside the ego’s domain. For these, we need another way. That way begins and ends in surrender, in letting go of our resistance to life as it presents itself.”

Author : Deborah Koshiol
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781092506953

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A collection of twenty-five poems that inspire and recollect a couple's years of marriage together.

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307494705

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In his collection Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal. For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert Bly, being in the company of his ten-year-old son; for Gerald Stern, it is a grapefruit at breakfast; for Billy Collins, a cigarette. Dancing with Joy includes English and Italian classical and romantic works; early Chinese and Persian verse; and poets from Chile, France, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Turkey, and India, plus a range of contemporary American and English poets. Whether inspiration is what you need, or an affirmation of what is already joyful in life, Dancing with Joy is a welcome treat for Housden’s numerous fans, as well as anyone looking for sheer happiness, marvelously expressed.

Author : Ginny Lowe Connors
Publisher : Grayson Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780967555430

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Poems celebrating the joys of marriage: falling in love, proposing, the wedding ceremony, intimacy, milestones, children, anniversaries, the mystery of another's differences, and staying in love.