This beautiful reading chosen by Ana and Ale for their Queenstown mountain elopement ceremony truly resonated with me. I sense that couples who love to garden as well as love each other would choose this reading as it talks about nurturing and growing and warns of how easily roots can be damaged.
It talks about love being a spiritual connection that requires trust, respect, kindness and affection… which all marriages must be based on to survive and thrive.
Brene Brown is an American professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy. She’s the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and Dare to Lead, which is the culmination of a seven-year study on courage and leadership.
Love
Written by Brene Brown
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honour the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.
Love is not something we give or get, it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows.
Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.
If you are a dog lover and looking for a reading, I suggest this one
