(On the occasion of Dad and Lynn’s wedding)
May your love flow like the patient river,
Channeling through life’s difficult terrain.
May it bring sweetness and slow delight
To make gentle the inevitable rain.
May a power beyond yourselves be stirred
From this merging of individual streams,
And the waters of your love run cool and deep
To nourish your hopes and your dreams.
May your love course ever onward,
Past the bounds of the life you create.
May the source of your love pour out from on high
And like the tides never abate.
So whether through rapids and rocks,
Or flood plains with water so wide,
Or unplumbed in underground lakes,
May you in love’s depths always abide.