I’m constantly copying snippets from newspaper articles, blogs and books that speak to weddings, commitment, marriage and love.
Here’s a snippet from an article by Pulitzer Prize winning Sarah Kaufman – the article is about ballet and has really nothing to do with weddings – BUT I love the last sentence and invite you to savor it. . .
One night, former ABT principal Susan Jaffe and her dance partner Jose Manuel Carreno left the theater to find a table in the walkway set with chocolate cake and punch, while a crowd of fans in paper hats sang “Happy Birthday.” (The dancers’ birthdays fall in the same month.) Admirers also have given Jaffe paintings, letters and, once, a mink coat.
The gifts were astonishing, Jaffe said, and simply being greeted with appreciation after performances always moved her. But at the final performance of her 22-year career, she made a concerted effort “to open up to the audience,” and this, she said, is when she arrived at a different understanding of those who sought only to give.
Taking bows that night, being showered with applause (and flowers), “was almost a spiritual moment,” she said. “In my whole career, I was so busy worrying about my balances and my performance that I forgot about receiving. I didn’t spend enough time appreciating being the receiver of love.”
Washington Post
By Sarah L. Kaufman
January 24, 2019
Two questions for YOU as you plan for your wedding ~
- Do you allow yourself to appreciate being the receiver of your partner’s love?
- Do you and your partner allow yourselves to be the receivers of the love offered you by family and friends?
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