I promise to love you without reservation, comfort you in times of distress, encourage you to achieve all of your goals, laugh with you and cry with you, grow with you in mind and spirit, always be open and honest with you, and cherish you for as long as we both shall live.
I, (Name), ask you, (Name), to be my husband/wife as my friend and my love.On this day I affirm the relationship we have enjoyed,looking to the future to deepen and strengthen it.I will be yours in plenty and in want,in sickness and in health, in failure and in triumph.Together we will dream, will stumble but restore each other,we will share all things, serving each other and our fellow humanity.I will cherish and respect you, comfort and encourage you,be open with you, and stay with you as long as we shall live,freed and bound by our Love.
Cherish Preteen
I, (Name), take you, (Name), to be my partner, loving what I know of you, and trusting what I do not yet know. I eagerly anticipate the chance to grow together, getting to know the man/woman you will become, and falling in love a little more every day. I promise to love and cherish you through whatever life may bring us.
This family tree craft will help instill an appreciation for families. Using small twigs and a few other items, each child can make a personalized family tree to help them cherish their family members.
Both sides seized on his story, especially his age, as a weapon-of-the-moment in the PR war to win over world opinion. (Sadly, suicide bombers are younger and younger, some even in their preteen years now.) Each side spun versions of Abdo's tale that blamed the other side for his tragic intent and near-tragic end.
It's natural and inevitable that the heavenly Father plants in every heart the seeds of hope and reconciliation. Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, it is natural for God's children to cultivate these seeds until they spring up into full flower. It's the nature of good to spread until one day it covers the whole ground. And not just hope and reconciliation. Things such as understanding, forgiveness, forbearance also come from the same divine source. They all proliferate. To know this is to pray. To cherish every proof of it, no matter how slight, is to help those prayers take root in daily experience.
Striking just the right balance between sentiment and insouciance, this slender, hip Christmas story recounts a semi-autobiographical story. The Shepherd is an affable preteen, chronically susceptible to pranks and immediately anxious about his little sister, the Angel, whose beloved but aged dog is dying. 2ff7e9595c
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