By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway
Editor of Wedlok.com

Step Seven: Regularly Recommit To Your Marriage

Include some wonderful ways to celebrate and recommit to love in your personal Marriage Manual. You can celebrate and regenerate your love at every phase.

• Collect romantic readings and poetry that reflect your feelings for one another.

• Recommitment ceremonies, or renewal of vows ceremonies, are a great way to re-stimulate and re-live your original wedding vows – long after you've taken that walk down the aisle. If you ever doubt your marriage but still have faith in your love, you can "awaken" your marriage by renewing your original vows and/or creating or adding new ones. As life changes, so will your intentions for marriage.

• You can have a catered affair, just invite a few friends over to celebrate, or simply hold a private ceremony between the two of you.

• You don’t have to throw a party and hold a new ceremony in order to recommit your love. You can renew your commitment in a very simple and loving way. It can be as simple as reading a poem to each other before bed one night and declaring your love. One couple reads and re-reads their wedding vows every night before bed. Then they re-seal them with a kiss!

• This excerpt from Song of Solomon, in the Old Testament, is a beautiful example of selecting words that are simple, yet powerfully honor and express your love. You can just look each other in the eyes, hold hands and say: "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine." And so it is.

Every time you experience a ritual that declares your love, it’s like giving your love, your life, and your marriage a new infusion of energy or, even, a fresh start.

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