"Let your life be the two of you looking together to a future, and what will be best for each in that tomorrow. You have some significant decisions to make about that future. Your labor of love will have to include each other in the process of deciding."
-- from the sermon by W. Gregory Martin
"This New Life Together" includes over twenty "field-tested" wedding meditations. The collection comes from clergy from six denominations and fourteen states.
As an anthology, this book fits many settings facing clergy. Included is a ceremony for an older and once widowed couple, a Protestant and Catholic wedding, an evening ceremony and a simple congregational vow for inclusion in a service.
Meditations include the following scriptures:
- Genesis 2:18-24
- Song of Solomon 8:7
- 1 John 4:7-12
- John 15:9-12
- 1 Corinthians 12:31--13:13
- John 2:1-10
- Ephesians 5:21-33
- Psalm 85:10
... and others
This anthology includes meditations from men and women clergy who are United Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic.