BY THESE VOWS (A covenant poem)

By Karen DeLuca, Karen8007@aol.com

By these vows I covenant
our bond as man and wife
I pledge that God has joined us here
for now and all my life.

By these vows you now possess
my honor, heart and hand
my help, my home, my love, my life,
yours always to command.

By these vows I ask you
to be steward of this gift
to keep as sacred all the love
that He has blessed us with.

If sorrow, pain and sickness
come into our married life
By these vows and with God's strength
we'll conquer every strife.

By these vows I marry you
in reverence, hope and faith
May God in heaven consecrate 
our union with His grace.

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Copyright Karen DeLuca, 1997.