Extract from Gift From The Sea Wedding Reading
We ADORE this wedding reading! This extract from Gift From The Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh is refreshingly honest about relationships and provides a sincere and beautiful message. This wedding reading speaks about how your love and your relationship with someone can change from moment to moment and the best way to embrace your relationship is focusing on how it is in the present. It’s not about looking back with fondness and nostalgia or anticipating the future with fear and nervousness but looking at how everything is in the moment. It’s advice that we think everyone should take on board as they enter a new chapter of commitment. Does this sound like the reading for you? Download our free PDF version!
Extract from Gift From The Sea
By Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When you love someone; you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity — in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits — islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.
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