The Prayer of St. Francis. My Bride Song.
The bridal salon has a tradition of presenting the bride (with the gown, make-up, hair, etc.) to the bridesgroom to the sound of a song that the bride picks. I went over 7 GB of music, before finally going with my first instinct - The Prayer of St. Francis, as sang by Sarah MacLachlan.
The words of the prayer are very meaningful to me. I try to live by them every day (with varying degrees of success, admittedly), and I don't mind the Christian undertones at all. I find the prayer more humanistic than anything else. To me it's about compassion and compromise, and living well with other people. Also, I have special fondness to it because I've translated it to Hebrew a couple of years ago for a poetry magazine. It's not the first translation of it, but having read the rest, I firmly assert that mine's fairly superb! :-)
Mostly, the prayer is what I want to bring into my relationship with Uri (and my marriage): to be an instrument of peace, sow love, pardon, have faith, hope, make light, bring joy, understand, love, give, and virtually die - kill my old single self - and be born again as a wife.
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The words of the prayer are very meaningful to me. I try to live by them every day (with varying degrees of success, admittedly), and I don't mind the Christian undertones at all. I find the prayer more humanistic than anything else. To me it's about compassion and compromise, and living well with other people. Also, I have special fondness to it because I've translated it to Hebrew a couple of years ago for a poetry magazine. It's not the first translation of it, but having read the rest, I firmly assert that mine's fairly superb! :-)
Mostly, the prayer is what I want to bring into my relationship with Uri (and my marriage): to be an instrument of peace, sow love, pardon, have faith, hope, make light, bring joy, understand, love, give, and virtually die - kill my old single self - and be born again as a wife.
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