Day 217: The Vow

I promise to love and care for you, and I will try in every way to be worthy of your love. I will always be honest with you, kind, patient and forgiving. But most of all, I promise to be a true and loyal friend to you. I will respect you, encourage you and cherish you. In health and sickness, Through sorrow and success. For all the days of my life. I promise that I will walk with you, hand in hand, wherever our journey leads us, living/learning/loving together, forever. I vow to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share in the silence when they are not. I promise to encourage your compassion, Because that is what makes you unique and wonderful. I promise to nurture your dreams, Because through them your soul shines. I promise to help shoulder our challenges, For there is nothing we cannot face if we stand together. I promise to be your partner in all things, Not possessing you, but working with you as a part of the whole. I promise to you perfect love and perfect trust, For one lifetime with you could never be enough. I promise above all else to live in truth with you. And to communicate fully and fearlessly. I give you my hand and my heart. As a sanctuary of warmth and peace.

I will be yours in plenty and in want, in sickness and in health, in failure and in triumph. I will dream with you, celebrate with you and walk beside you through whatever our lives may bring. You are my person—my love and my life, today and always.

This is my sacred vow to you, my equal in all things.

 I see these vows as promises as well as  privileges: I get to laugh with you and cry with you; care for you and share with you. I get to run with you and walk with you; build with you and live with you. I love you. Forever and always.